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JOHN  BURGWIN 
From  the  Painting  by  John  S.  Copley,  1783 


John  Burgwin,  Carolinian 
John  Jones,  Virginian 


Their  Ancestors  and 
Descendants 

BY 

Walter  Burgwyn  Jones 
of  Montgomery,  Alabama 


1913 

Privately  Printed 


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Montgomery.  Wabama. 


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Preface 


The  accompanying  brief  sketch  of  my  ancestors  and  kindred 
is  an  effort  to  preserve^  for  present  and  future  family  use,  in 
convenient  form,  such  facts  and  data  as  could  be  ascertained 
with  the  limited  time  and  means  at  the  writer's  disposal.  None 
realizes  more  keenly  than  he  the  many  imperfections  of  the 
book. 

As  the  sketch  is  not  intended  for  the  public  no  explanation 
need  be  addressed  to  them.  To  those  interested  he  might  give 
many  reasons  in  favor  of  the  preservation  of  family  histories  and 
genealogies,  but  it  will  suffice  to  mention  only  a  few  of  them. 

Veneration  of  honorable  ancestry  is  a  just  instinct  and  won- 
derfully ennobling  in  its  influences.  An  affectionate  regard  for 
the  memory  of  those  who  have  gone  before  is  most  natural  and 
cannot  justly  yield  anything  to  the  animadversion  of  the  cynic. 

It  is  also  true  that  there  are  many  today,  descendants  of 
honorable  and  interesting  families,  who  find  the  virtues  and 
character  of  utter  strangers  far  more  interesting  than  those  of 
their  own  kindred.  They  seemingly  little  realize  that  a  study 
of  their  forbears'  useful  and  honorable  careers  would  inspire 
them  with  far  more  self-respect  and  create  in  them  a  stronger 
desire  to  emulate  the  virtues  of  their  worthy  progenitors  than 
would  the  study  of  lives  of  others  with  different  blood. 

The  writer  desires  here  to  express  his  deep  appreciation  of 
the  many  kindnesses  extended  by  all  who  have  aided  him. 
Especially  is  he  grateful  to  his  cousins,  Mrs.  James  C.  Mar- 
shall, Mrs.  Margaret  C.  D.  Burgwyn,  Mr.  George  Pollok 
Burgwyn  and  Mr.  Junius  Moore  Riggs,  to  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Mary 


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Virginia  Gesner^  and  to  his  father^  Thomas  Goode  Jones,  for 
their  generous  assistance  in  furnishing  him  much  valuable  and 
useful  information. 

If  some  "weak  and  faltering  kinsman  shall  find,  in  the  ex- 
amples of  honorable  fidelity  to  duty  recorded  in  these  pages,  in- 
spiration to  new  courage  and  higher  endeavor"  the  writer  will 
feel  generously  repaid  for  his  labors. 


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The  Burgwins 


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9    o  o  4  r 


"Nor  can  I  consent  to  close  until  I  have  invoked  the  Divine 
blessing  upon  us  and  our  posterity^  that  we  may,  by  a  noble 
Christian  rectitude  of  walk  and  conversation,  preserve  the 
family  escutcheon  as  unsullied  as  when  it  was  committed  to  us 
by  our  sires.  It  is  happily  not  necessary  that  we  should  dis- 
tinguish ourselves  in  order  to  fulfill  the  Divine  purpose  of  our 
existence.  He  is  greatest  who  lives  most  in  harmony  with  the 
will  of  his  Creator.  There  is  indeed  a  royal  knighthood  before 
whose  lists  the  roll  of  Battle  Abbey  pales  into  lusterless  ob- 
scurity; a  Prince  whose  shoes  the  proudest  knight  of  King 
Arthur's  mystic  circle  was  not  worthy  to  unlatch;  upon  whose 
imperial  standard  are  emblazoned  the  issues  of  eternal  life  and 
eternal  death.  May  you  have  the  grace  and  the  courage,  and  the 
wisdom  to  take  upon  your  young  manhood  the  vows  of  this  royal 
order;  and  when  the  great  tournament  of  life  is  over,  and  the 
seraphic  herald  proclaims  the  victor's  lists,  may  you  be  there, 
to  receive  at  the  hands  of  your  Prince  the  meed  of  everlasting 
glory." 

— From  L.  H.  Jones'  Family  History. 


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THE  BURGWINS 


T  THE  close  of  the  year  1750,  (1)  John  Burgwin. 
(formerly  Ap  Gwyn,  b.  1682  d.  1751)  a  wealthy 
land  owner  and  widower,  and  the  only  survivor 
of  the  ancient  and  honorable  family  of  Gwyn 
(Gwin)  .  lived  with  his  two  sons  in  South  Wales,  England. 

(3)  John  Burgwin.  younger  son  and  first  progenitor  of  the 
Burgwin  Family  in  America^  was  born  at  Hereford^  England. 
Feb.  25.  1731.  (2)  James,  his  elder  brother,  upon  the  death 
of  their  father  inherited  the  large  family  estates,  rent  rolls^ 
etc.  "He  had  too  long  been  accustomed  to  the  solitude  of  an 
isolated  castle  and  to  intercourse  with  but  very  few  of  their 
remote  neighbors,  to  desire  a  share  in  the  literary  tastes  of  their 
father.  He  was  a  most  selfish  and  eccentric  man.  He  disliked 
Americans  so  that  to  his  mind  American  and  Traitor  were  syn- 
onymous terms — disaffection  in  America  had  just  begun  to 
show  itself.  Averse  to  literature,  without  social  feeling,  it  is  no 
wonder  that  he  shunned  the  society  of  ladies.  He  smoked  his 
pipe^  read  the  newspapers,  conversed  freely  with  his  steward 
and  game  keeper,  and  mechanically  took  his  seat  in  the  family 
pew  in  the  old  church  at  Merioneth. 

"John's  character  was  of  a  far  more  interesting  nature.  He 
was  warm-hearted,  intelligent,  sincere  and  generous.  His 
highly  cultivated  mind  and  love  of  literature  had  carried  him 
through  his  several  grades  at  Cambridge  and  Eton  with  honors, 
and  his  career  at  Oxford  had  nearly  terminated  when  his  father's 
summons  and  death  produced  a  change  as  to  his  future  course. 

"Shortly  before  death.  John's  father  advised  him  to  emigrate 
to  America  and  there  seek  to  improve  his  slender  means  by  in- 
dustry and  energy  and  strive  to  attain  an  honorable  Indepen- 
dence. He  left  his  son  a  packet  of  letters  directed  to  particular 
friends — gentlemen  of  influence,  respectability  and  wealth  then 
residing    in  the  Colonies — commending  his  son    to  their  kind 

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consideration.  One  letter  was  addressed  to  Mr.  George  Inglis, 
of  Charleston^  S.  Carolina^  a  native  of  Scotland  and  related  to 
to  the  ancient  clan  of  that  name.  (1)  Burgwin  recommended 
his  son  to  cultivate  an  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Inglis  and  to  be 
governed  by  his  advice. 

"When  the  brothers  separated,  (2)  James  shaking  hands 
with  John  observed:  'John,  make  your  fortune  and  return.  But 
if  you  marry  an  American,  neither  yourself  nor  your  family  shall 
possess  a  single  shilling  from  me.'  The  old  grey-haired  butler 
and  Gwynette,  his  foster-mother,  wept  as  they  bade  him  fare- 
well, and  urged  him  to  return  soon  ere  death  had  sealed  their 
eyes."     (Mrs.  Eliza  I.  Clitherall's  Diary,  Book  I). 

After  a  voyage  of  seven  weeks  (3)  John  Burgwin  arrived  in 
Charleston,  S.  C,  and  the  letters  of  introduction  were  delivered 
to  their  several  addresses,  but  that  to  Mr.  Inglis  was  presented 
first.  He  gave  his  dead  friend's  son  a  cordial  welcome  and 
through  his  influence  Burgwin  was  received  into  the  office  of 
the  most  respectable  firm  of  Hooper,  Alexander  &  Co.,  with  a 
salary  far  beyond  his  expectations. 

"Mr.  Burgwin  called  at  Mr.  Inglis'  the  evening  of  the  agree- 
ment and  informed  him  of  his  acceptance  of  the  position. 
'Your  father,'  observed  Mr.  Inglis,  'was  an  old  and  dear  friend 
of  mine  and  I  rejoice  in  the  opportunity  to  serve  his  son.  This 
letter.  Sir,  (pointing  to  one  laying  open  upon  the  table)  bears 
strong  testimony  to  your  merit.  Your  determination  to  obtain 
Independence  through  your  own  efforts  is  evidence  you  pos- 
sess those  great  qualities  essential  to  its  attainment — decision, 
energy  and  perseverance.  A  stranger  in  a  strange  land,  you 
will  find  many  difficulties  to  surmount,  many  calls  for  self-con- 
trol, many  a  steep  hill  strewn  with  thorns  to  climb  ere  you  reach 
the  goal  of  your  ambition,  and  many  an  ignis  fatuus  to  lure  you 
from  the  firm,  strait  path  of  rectitude.  But,  my  young  friend, 
bear  Integrity  for  your  shield.  Prudence  for  your  staff,  and  Per- 
severance for  your  motto,  with  your  eyes  constantly  raised  to 
that  great  Being  from  whom  alone  your  strength  can  be  derived 
or  your  efforts  blest.  I  shall  receive  pleasure  in  introducing 
you  to  my  friends,  and,  as  we  are  now  in  social  intercourse,  let 


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me  advise  you  not  to  be  hasty  in  forming  intimacies.  There  are 
in  every  place  characters  ready^  and  seeking,  to  lead  astray  the 
unsuspicious  and  unwary  youth.  By  the  associates  you  form 
your  own  character  will  rise  or  fall.  Shun,  oh  shun !  the  infidel 
and  the  gambler;  however  specious  their  pretensions,  avoid 
such  persons.  Let  us  now  adjourn  to  the  drawing  room  and  I 
will  introduce  you  to  my  daughters,  Eliza,  by  a  former  mar- 
riage, and  Mary,  by  my  last  marriage.  Both  are  motherless.' 
The  evening  passed  pleasantly  and  Mr.  Ingiis  expressed  to 
Mr.  Burgwin  his  desire  that  he  should  visit  them  without  cere- 
mony; that  he  claimed  him  on  Sundays  and  at  those  times  he 
could  spare  from  business  or  recreation."  (ID.) 

"Mr.  Ingiis  was  a  rare  specimen  of  polished  address,  literary 
refinement  and  Christian  attraction.  Possessed  of  an  inde- 
pendent fortune,  his  house  was  the  abode  of  elegance,  taste  and 
hospitality.  All  who  had  heard  of  him  respected,  and  all  who 
knew  loved  him.  His  daughter  Eliza  (mother  of  Dr.  George 
Clitherall)  had  received  every  advantage  that  money  could  pro- 
cure or  the  best  society  perfect.  Her  vigorous  intellect  had 
nurtured  and  matured  every  mental  acquirement  and  at  this 
period  she  was  bethrothed  to  Mr.  Thos.  Loughton  Smith."  (ID.) 

Some  time  after  the  period  referred  to,  (3)  Burgwin  was 
sent  by  his  employers  upon  business  to  Wilmington,  N.  C.  There 
he  became  acquainted  with  Miss  Margaret  Haynes,  daughter 
of  the  wealthy  planter  and  merchant  Roger  Haynes,  Esquire, 
formerly  of  London  and  Lisbon.  Her  mother  was  the  only 
daughter  and  heiress  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Marsden,  the  first 
and  for  several  years  rector  of  St.  James'  Parish.  He  was  the 
Episcopal  clergyman  to  settle  on  the  Cape  Fear  (N.  C.)  River, 
first  owner  from  the  original  Lords  Proprietors  of  the  two 
plantations  later  known  as  the  HERMITAGE  and  CASTLE 
HAYNES,  and  prior  to  his  coming  to  America  was  chaplain  to 
the  Duke  of  Portland,  then  the  Governor  of  the  Island  of 
Jamaica. 

A  mutual  interchange  of  sentiment  producing  an  engagement 
between  Mr.  Burgwin  and  Miss  Margaret  Haynes,  Burgwin 
later  removed  to  Wilmington,  and  having  obtained  the  sanc- 


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tion  of  her  parents,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Haynes 
on  February  15,  1753.  Mrs.  Burgwin  lived  but  a  few  years  and 
died  October  19,  1770,  without  issue  and  was  buried  at  CAS- 
TLE HAYNES,  the  splendid  mansion  erected  by  her  father 
upon  a  tract  of  land  about  eight  miles  north  of  Wilmington. 

Mary  Haynes,  sister  of  Mrs.  Burgwin,  married  in  1762  Gen- 
eral Hugh  Waddell,  (b.  Ireand  1734;  d.  Apl.  9,  1773)  a  devout 
churchman  and  the  founder  of  a  long  line  of  devoted  churchmen 
and  useful  and  honorable  citizens.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  John  Burgwin  &  Co.,  opulent  merchants  who  carried 
on  a  lucrative  trade  between  Wilmington  and  London,  Eng. 
"He  won  laurels  when  barely  of  age  in  the  campaign  in  which 
Washington  gained  his  first  military  experience,  being  promoted 
from  lieutenant  to  captain.  As  Major  he  marched  with  Gen. 
Forbes  to  Ft.  Duquesne.  In  the  next  year,  1759,  we  find  him 
protecting  the  North  Carolina  frontiers  against  the  Indians  by 
building  forts  and  fighting  when  needed.  In  1765  he  joined 
with  John  Ashe  in  leading  forcible  resistance  to  the  enforcement 
of  the  Stamp  Act.  Gen.  Waddell  was  interested  in  civil  as  well 
as  military  affairs,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Assembly  from 
Rowan  and  Bladen.  He  settled  on  Cape  Fear  River  at  Rocky 
Point,  on  a  plantation  then  and  now  called  CASTLE  HAYNES. 
Having  great  military  talents  and  experience,  being  of  indomit- 
able pluck  and  energy,  possessed  of  large  wealth  and  big  brain, 
commanding  manners  and  an  impetus  zeal  for  liberty,  he  seemed 
destined  to  stand  high  on  the  roll  of  the  great  generals  who 
justified  the  confidence  reposed  in  them  by  Washington.  He  was 
cut  off  by  disease  two  years  before  blood  flowed  at  Lexington 
and  Concord."  (Kemp  P.  Battle  in  DeRossette's  'Church 
History'). 

After  Mrs.  Burgwin's  death  CASTLE  HAYNES  was  closed 
and  Mr.  Burgwin  continued  improvements  upon  the  other  tract, 
east  of  CASTLE  HAYNES  and  across  the  county  road.  The 
small  building  then  standing  formed  a  wing  of  the  new  mansion- 
house  to  which  Burgwin,  comparing  his  solitary  life  to  that  of 
a  recluse,  gave  the  name  of  the  HERMITAGE.  "It  was  beau- 
tifully located  and  presented  a  very  imposing  appearance  being 
one  hundred  and  tv/enty  feet  long.    The  north  faced  a  sloping 

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lawn  extending  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  yards  to  Prince 
George's  Creek,  and  the  south  front  faced  a  large  flower  garden^ 
from  which  extended  a  broad  avenue  about  half  a  mile  long^ 
with  a  double  row  of  elms  on  each  side^  continued  by  a  carriage 
way  of  more  than  a  mile  in  length,  under  ditch  and  banks, 
through  the  pines,  until  it  entered  the  county  road  leading  to 
Wilmington.  *  ^  *  The  house  contained  seventeen  rooms  with  a 
large,  well  ventilated  cellarage  extending  under  the  whole.  The 
building  was  of  the  most  substantial  character.  Instead  of 
weather-bo-arding  the  two  wings  were  sided  with  cypress  shin- 
gles, which,  after  the  lapse  of  more  than  a  hundred  years,  were 
as  sound  and  solid  as  when  first  nailed  on.  It  is  stated  that  they 
were  made  under  contract  by  Col.  Saml.  Ashe,  then  a  young 
man  and  subsequently  of  Revolutionary  fame.  The  framing  tim- 
bers were  very  large  and  solid,  and  being  of  heart  pitch  pine, 
stood  for  many  hours  after  the  sides  and  roof  had  burned  away, 
at  the  fire  which  destroyed  it  in  1881,  presenting  a  very  striking 
appearance  as  they  stood  in  relief  against  the  sky,  erect  and  in 
place,  a  mass  of  blaze  and  heat."  (Jas.  G.  Burr,  Am.  Mag. 
of  Hist.  Vol.  XVI  p.  435)  "The  workmen,  Mr.  Burgwin's  own 
property,  were  directed  by  an  English  architect.  x\lcoves, 
bowers,  a  hot-house  and  fish-pond  adorned  the  three  acres  laid 
off  for  pleasure  grounds.  A  large  vegetable,  or  as  it  was  denom- 
inated Cook's  Garden,  yielded  plentifully  for  the  table.  The 
HERMITAGE  became  a  retreat  for  the  weary  merchant  on 
the  'day  of  rest.'  (Alas!  How  perverted.)  The  tired  traveller 
found  no  lock  on  the  great  gate  which  led  to  the  large  house. 
The  Master  had  'freely  received'  and  freely  did  he  give.  A  shed 
room  connected  with  the  south  wing  was  especially  for,  and  so 
named,  the  Traveller's  Room.  The  urbanity  of  Mr.  Burgwin's 
manner,  the  liberality  of  his  habits,  his  general  information  and 
cheerful  disposition  could  not  fail  of  attracting  both  daily  and 
often  weekly  guests.  The  gardens  were  large  and  laid  off  in 
English  style  with  a  creek  winding  through  the  largest  and 
upon  its  banks  grew  native  shrubbery.  A  fish  pond  communica- 
ting with  the  creek  produced  an  abundance  of  fish.  Up- 
on a  mound  of  considerable  heighth  was  erected  a  brick  room 
containing  shelves  and  a  large  number  of  books,  chairs  and 

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table.  This  was  called  the  Family  Chapel,  for  in  those  days 
there  was  no  regular  worship  in  Wilmington  and  my  Father  was 
of  opinion  that  family  worship  was  a  duty,  and  a  building  thus 
consecrated  and  used  only  for  that  purpose  would  stamp  upon 
the  performance  a  greater  reverence."  (Mrs.  Clitherall's  Diary) 
Upon  the  notes  issued  in  1815  by  the  Bank  of  Cape  Fear  was 
engraved  a  picture  of  the  HERMITAGE  in  vignette. 

The  HERMITAGE  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  old  time  coun- 
try mansions  of  Cape  Fear,  and  the  plantation  was  the  only  one 
in  the  state  which  had  been  owned  by  one  family  and  occupied 
by  them  from  the  time  of  its  original  grant  by  the  royal  paten- 
tees two  hundred  years  ago  down  to  the  present  day.  The  fur- 
niture was  of  massive  mahogany  imported  from  England.  During 
the  war  between  the  States  the  mansion  was  occupied  by  Federal 
Troops  and  greatly  desecrated.  The  splendid  furniture  was 
broken  up  or  given  to  negroes  and  all  of  the  books,  family  re- 
cords, etc.  destroyed.  A  large  and  valuable  oil  painting,  set  in 
a  panel  over  the  mantel-piece  in  the  drawing  room,  was  picked  to 
pieces  by  the  soldiers  in  search  of  treasure  with  their  baynotes. 

"The  history  of  that  picture  presents  the  character  of  Mr. 
Burgwin  in  such  an  admirable  light  that  it  well  deserves  to  be 
recorded.  On  his  return  to  America,  after  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  he  found  himself  greatly  embarrassed  by 
the  debts  which  he  owed  in  England,  incurred  before  the  war, 
while  a  great  part  of  those  due  him  in  America  could  not  be 
collected,  owing  to  insolvencies  and  the  Statute  of  Limitations 
and  other  obstacles  interposed  by  his  debtors.  His  English 
debts  were  barred  by  law,  and  wholly  uncollectible  as  his  credi- 
tors well  knew.  Yet,  notwithstanding  his  great  losses  on  this 
side,  which  nearly  sacrificed  his  whole  estate,  such  was  his  high 
sense  of  honor  and  indomitable  energy  that  he  did  not  rest  until 
he  paid  off  every  dollar  he  owed,  although  the  struggle  continued 
through  one  half  of  his  remaining  years.  It  was  to  mark  their 
appreciation  of  his  honorable  conduct  that  the  merchants  of  the 
celebrated  'Lloyd's  Coffee  House'  had  the  picture  painted  and 
sent  to  him. 

"It  represented  a  forest  scene,  a  dark  thunder  storm  arising 
in  the  distance,  and  in  the  foreground  two  horses  drawing  a 

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heavy  load — straining  every  muscle  in  their  effort  to  get  it  in 
before  the  storm  should  be  upon  them.  It  was  greatly  admired 
by  connoisseurs,  but  its  beauties  were  lost  on  the  vandals  who 
destroyed  it.  their  sordid  natures  not  being  capable  of  seeing  in 
a  beautiful  work  of  art  anything  but  a  supposed  place  of  conceal- 
ment for  hidden  treasure.  Its  loss  has  naturally  been  greatly  de- 
plored by  the  surviving  members  of  the  family,  for  they  felt 
a  just  pride  in  possessing  such  a  souvenir  of  their  ancestor,  re- 
flecting so  much  honor  upon  him.  The  subject  of  the  picture 
was  happily  chosen,  symbolizing,  as  it  did,  the  herculean  efforts 
of  Mr.  Burgwin  to  relieve  himself  of  embarrassments  when 
surrounded  bv  the  dark  clouds  of  adversity."  (J.  G.  Burr^ 
Am.  Mag.  Hist.  Xov.  1886  p.  436). 

]^Jany  references  to  (3)  John  Burgwin  will  be  found  in  the 
Coloni-1  Records  of  Xorth  Carolina.  On  Apl.  30,  1762  the  Coun- 
cil ordered  that  a  new  commission  of  the  peace  and  dedimus 
issue  for  the  County  of  Bladen  and  that  Hugh  Waddell  (Burg- 
win's  brother-in-law)  and  John  Burgwin  be  added  thereto.  (7 
Colonial  Records  762)  The  same  order  was  entered  in  March, 
176 1-.  On  Feb.  28,  1769  we  find  Burgwin  sitting  as  a  Magis- 
trate with  a  court  of  magistrates  and  free-holders  on  the  trial 
of  a  slave  named  Quanimo  for  robbing  sundry  persons.  The 
slave  v\-as  found  guilty  and  hanged  the  next  day,  his  head  being 
affixed  to  the  Point  near  Wilmington.  It  would  appear  that 
Burgwin  served  as  Magistrate  for  many  years.  In  June  1768 
he  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  Suj^erior  Court  of  Justices  for  the 
District  of  Wilmington  by  Chief  Justice  Martin  Howard.  By 
an  act  approved  Dec.  5,  1768,  his  splendid  talents  as  a  pains- 
taking and  accomplished  accountant  were  recognized  and  he  was 
appointed  to  examine  and  state  tl^  accounts  of  the  Province  from 
the  year  1748.  This  was  indeed  a  splendid  tribute  to  his 
high  integrity  and  wonderful  abilities.  In  1759  he  was  serving  as 
Road  Commissioner  for  the  White  Marsh  District.  In  1755 
he  was  serving  as  Quartermaster  in  Capt.  McKenzie's  Troop 
in  New  Hanover  County  and  later  was  recommended  as  "the  pro- 
perest  person  to  be  promoted  to  Cornel."  On  June  30,  1760  he 
was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  Upper  House  of  the  Assembly  and  in 
Nov.  1762,  we  find  him  serving  as  Private  Secretary   to  Gov. 


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Dobbs.  Gov.  Tryon  appointed  him  Register  of  the  Court  of 
Chancery  in  May,  1769  and  the  next  day  apointed  him  Master 
of  the  High  Court  of  Chancery.  On  Dec.  4,  1773,  he  was  elected 
and  returned  to  the  Assembly  as  a  Representative  from  the 
County  of  Bladen.  He  served  as  Clerk  of  the  Upper  House  for 
ten  years  and  when  his  connection  was  severed  the  House  resolv- 
ed "that  during  ten  years  service  as  Clerk  of  this  House  the  said 
John  Burgwin  hath  ever  acted  with  the  strictest  Integrity  and 
Honour  and  hath  discharged  all  the  duties  of  that  office  with 
skill  and  ability." 

"A  citizen  of  Wilmington,  conspicuous  for  attachment  to 
church  principles  and  for  faithfulness  in  his  civil  duties  was  John 
Burgwin.  ^  *  *  He  was  Clerk  of  the  Council  and  Public 
Treasurer  under  Dobbs  and  Tryon,  and  had  their  full  confidence. 
He  was  noted  for  strict  business  principles  and  talents  as  an 
acountant,  his  reputation  in  this  regard  extending  even  into  the 
remotest  regions  where  the  Regulators  nourished  their  hatred 
of  fee  bills  and  taxes."  (Kemp  P.  Battle  in  "Church  History  of 
N.  C."  140). 

While  playing  a  game  of  Blind  Man's  Buff,  at  a  party  given 
by  Mr.  Burgwin  at  the  HERMITAGE,  on  Jan.  8,  1775,  he  fell 
and  received  a  dangerous  fracture  of  the  leg.  "He  languished 
in  this  position  for  five  months  without  any  appearance  of  cure, 
and  at  last  by  a  surgeon  of  the  first  Eminence  was  advised  to 
change  this  climate  as  soon  as  possible  for  that  of  England  other- 
wise his  life  would  be  in  danger."  (C.  R.  N.  C).  The  war 
between  the  Colonies  and  Great  Britain  was  now  in  progress, 
and  Mr,  Burgwin  having  taken  the  oath  of  citizenship,  arranged 
his  affairs  in  Carolina,  leased  CASTLE  HAYNES,  the  HER- 
MITAGE and  MARSH  CASTLE  and  departed  for  England 
where  his  monied  property  was  secured.  Burgwin,  at  this  time, 
stood  between  Scylla  and  Charybdis.  His  English  parentage 
and  connections  condemned  his  as  British,  and  perhaps  was  one 
of  the  causes  of  the  confiscation  of  his  estates.  However,  the 
British  troops  regarded  him  as  lawful  game,  plundered  the 
HERMITAGE,  fired  MARSH  CASTLE  and  carried  off  many 
of  his  slaves.  Having  taken  the  oath  of  citizenship  before  the 
War  broke  out,  he  maintained  a  neutral  position. 

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After  his  marriage  in  England  Mr.  Burgwin  returned  to 
America.  From  MARSH  CASTLE^  an  estate  he  owned  on 
Lake  Waccamaw^  under  date  of  Aug.  5,  1780^  he  writes  Gov. 
Nash  asking  that  Lady  Mercer  and  children^  who  had  been  at 
his  house  since  May  and  who  were  anxious  to  join  their  husband 
and  father  (late  Purveyor  General  at  Charleston),  be  permitted 
to  Pass  to  George  Town.  Burgwin  states  that  as  "it  will  be 
loansome  for  the  ladies  to  go  by  themselves  through  the  woods" 
he  will  send  his  clerk  with  them  and  lend  them  horses,  chaise 
and  a  servant. 

The  Council  of  State  at  Kingston  on  Oct.  27,  1778  granted 
Burgwin,  who  had  just  arrived  at  Wilmington  from  New  York, 
a  parole.  On  Jan.  23,  1779,  a  joint  committee  of  both  houses  of 
the  Legislature  appointed  to  receive  and  hear  the  petitions  of  per- 
sons desiring  to  be  admitted  to  citizenship  in  North  Carolina 
reported  that  they  found  the  facts  stated  in  Burgwin's  petition  for 
citizenship  to  be  true  and  that  while  in  England  "upon  hearing 
of  the  confiscation  Act,  notwithstanding  his  then  infirm  state  of 
health,  he  embarked  for  New  York,  where  he  arrived  and  re- 
ceived passport  from  Congress  to  this  State.  The  many  public 
services  that  gentleman  formerly  rendered  this  country  and  his 
ready  compliance  with  its  laws  gives  us  no  room  to  doubt  his 
attachment  to  its  interests.  We  therefore  unanimously  recommend 
him  to  be  received  as  a  citizen  and  that  his  property  be  restored 
to  him."  Later,  it  being  found  that  his  property  had  been  il- 
legally and  without  justification  confiscated,  and  probably  at 
the  instance  of  business  competitors,  it  was  restored  to  him. 
(Col.  Rec.  N.  C.  13:650-51,  734.  16:248)  In  Vol.  9  of  the 
Colonial  Records  of  North  Carolina  at  pages  1109-11  will  be 
found  Burgwin's  correspondence  with  the  Safety  Committee  con- 
cerning the  amount  of  gun-powder  he  had  on  hand  in  1775 
when  the  War  broke  out. 

While  in  England  Mr.  Burgwin  met  and  married  Miss  Eliza 
Bush,  dau.  of  George  Bush  and  Elizabeth  (Moore)  Bush  and 
a  grand-daughter  of  Paul  Moore  (b.  1673)  of  England.  Mr. 
Bush  lived  at  ASHLEY  BARN  near  Bristol,  Eng.,  and  his 
daughter,  Eliza,  was  born  Feb.  15,  1753,  and  by  a  strange 
coincidence  on  the  same  day  and  to  the  very  hour  of  Mr.  Burg- 

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win's  first  marriage  to  Margaret  Haynes.  The  Bush  home  was 
of  "freestone^  plain  and  spacious.  Its  elegant  simplicity  corres- 
ponded with  the  mien  and  character  of  its  owners,  who  were 
of  that  pure,  respectable,  and  consistent  denomination  called 
Quakers.  Few,  if  any,  were  more  loved  and  respected  than  this 
family.  From  their  door  the  needy  suppliant  never  returned 
unsatisfied.  The  poor  sick  traveller  was  pitied  and  relieved;  the 
vagrant  admonished,  the  widow  or  fatherless  never  sued  in  vain; 
they  were  warm'd — they  were  cloth'd,  they  were  fed.  Mercy 
received  and  Truth  bade  them  welcome.  Nor  had  this  long  and 
ancient  family  descent  one  stain  to  sully  the  lustre  of  its  Chris- 
tian escuthcheon.  A  cherished  circle  of  four  daughters  and  two 
sons  surrounded  the  family  hearthstone.  Love  and  Harmony 
presided,  and  the  happiness  of  each  reflected  the  smiles  of  those 
around.  They  had  never  at  the  church  altar  vowed  to  re- 
nounce, but  they  evidenced  by  their  lives  that  they  rejected 
the  'pomps  and  vanities'  of  this  world.  Neither  pride  nor 
avarice  held  communication  with  their  wealth;  bountifully  had 
God  blessed  their  stores  and  freely  did  they  dispense  from  their 
abundance  to  the  needy.  Early  hours  were  a  part  of  the  family 
system  and  the  spare  time  which  too  many  young  ladies  devote 
to  dress  and  novels  was  by  Mrs.  Bush  and  daughters  appropriated 
to  visit  to  the  cottagers  around,  sewing  for  the  little  motherless 
children  and  ministering  to  the  sick.  Priscilla  Bush  (sister 
of  Eliza)  was  a  kind,  affectionate  and  sacrificing  woman,  devot- 
edly attached  to  her  sister.  They  were  twins  in  heart,  though 
differing  in  appearance,  but  Eliza  was  the  universal  favorite. 
She  possessed  all  the  amiable  qualities  of  Priscilla.  Whilst  the 
latter  won,  the  former  commanded  admiration.  Native  dignity, 
ease,  suavity,  a  winning  address,  and  elegance  of  manner  se- 
cured the  esteem  at  first  inspired.  In  her  character  was  a  tinc- 
ture of  romance,  but  it  was  as  a  swift  passing  cloud  over  the  pic- 
ture we  portray.  Her  heart  was  a  well  spring  of  tenderness — be- 
nevolent from  principle — not  in  high  sounding  donations  upon'  a 
subscription  list,  resembling  the  torrent's  rush,  but  flowing  as 
the  gentle  stream  refreshing  in  its  course  and  reviving  the  droop- 
ing, suffering  child  of  poverty.    Severe  only  in  self  judgment. 


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BURGWIN'S  COAT  OF  ARMS 


she  threw  the  veil  of  pity  over  the  failings  of  others.  Even  those 
who  were  conscious  of  deserved  condemnation  felt  assured  that 
upon  them^  unless  duty  or  justice  dictated^  censure  from  her 
would  not  be  expressed.  Her  heart's  monitor  led  her  often  to 
repeat:  'Lord^  what  would  I  be  but  for  Thy  grace?'  Her 
habitual  practice  of  virtue  evidenced  her  abhorrence  of  vice. 
Warm  and  sincere  in  her  professions,  those  whom  she  received 
to  her  heart  she  loved  to  distinguish.  As  a  Christian  she  was 
consistent^  as  a  daughter  she  united  with  her  sister  in  watching 
every  opportunity  to  comfort,  to  assist  and  to  cherish  her  aged 
parents,  to  meet  their  wish,  to  follow  their  precept.  Having 
a  natural  taste  for  reading  and  gifted  with  a  retentive  memory, 
she  had  made  the  best  authors  her  close  study,  and  by  this  prac- 
tice was  preparing  her  mind  for  the  reception  of  such  knowledge 
as  the  future  vicissitudes  of  life  might  call  forth.  The  utmost 
efforts  of  a  heart  over-flowing  with  filial  love  fail  in  this  feeble 
attempt  to  eulogize  the  lovely  mother.  Alas !  It  is  only  from  the 
recital  of  those  who  knew  her  well  and  knew  her  long  and  from 
the  perusal  of  many  of  her  letters  to  those  who  possessed  her 
confidence  and  regard  (letters — the  index  of  a  heart  which 
knew  no  double  covering)  that  her  only  daughter  has  made  this 
essay."    (Mrs.  Clitherall's  Diary). 

"According  to  the  regulations  of  the  Society  of  Quakers,  a 
member  of  their  denomination  could  not  marry  out  of  their  pale 
and  remain  a  member.  Regretting  the  circumstance  and  neces- 
sity of  withdrawing  from  'her  own  people,'  for  her  troth  had  been 
long  plighted  to  Mr.  Burgwin  whose  church  principles  had 
*grown  with  his  growth  and  strengthened  with  his  strength,' 
Eliza  consented  to  their  marriage  ceremony  being  performed  at 
St.  Mary's  Church,  Thornbury,  Gloucestershire,  where  their 
vows  were  plighted  and  consummated  by  her  cousin,  the  Rev. 
Richard  King."  (ID.)  The  entry  on  the  vestry  records  is  as 
follows:  "No.  408.  John  Burgwin,  of  this  Parish,  Esquire,  and 
Elizabeth  Bush,  of  the  Parish  of  St.  James,  Bristol  in  the 
County  of  Gloucester,  spinster,  were  married  in  this  church  hy 
license  this  the  27th  day  of  April  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one 


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thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty-two  hy  me  Richard  King, 
minister.      This  marriage  solemnized  between  us — 

John  Burgwin. 
Elizth  Bush. 

In  the  presence  of  Sally  Sergeant,  Henry  King,  TV.  Holmes.'' 
After  the  ceremony  the  bridal  party  repaired  to  the  GROVE, 
a  beautiful  country  house  one  mile  from  Thornbury  and  about 
three  miles  from  Alveston,  which  Mr.  Burgwin  had  rented  for 
a  year.  Later  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burgwin  removed  to  ASHLEY 
BARN  were  they  remained  until  their  departure  for  America 
in  February,  1784. 

Eliza  Burgwin  lived  only  a  few  brief  years  after  her  mar- 
riage, dying  at  Wilmington  on  October  19th,  1787,  "universally 
lamented  by  all  who  knew  her.  Her  deportment  through  all  the 
walks  of  life  invariably  marked  her  as  the  most  tender  wife, 
affectionate  parent,  and  indulgent  mistress,  the  true  and  sincere 
friend:  possessing  in  an  eminent  degree  all  those  virtues  of  the 
human  soul  necessary  to  constitute  the  good  and  amiable  Chris- 
tian. 

"Blessed  with  the  most  benevolent  and  charitable  disposition, 
her  feeling  and  sympathizing  heart  was  ever  warm,  and  expanded 
in  the  relief  of  the  unfortunate  and  distressed:  humane  to  all, 
she  viewed  herself  as  fulfilling  the  most  noble  purposes  of  her 
being,  in  alleviating  as  much  as  was  in  her  power,  the  calamities 
of  others,  and  wiping  the  tears  of  affliction  from  sorrow's  eyes — 
But,  Alas !  The  soul  thus  glowing  with  every  friendly  and  tender 
sensation,  was  itself  unshielded  from  adversity:  agnozing  pain 
and  torturing  disease  exempt  neither  the  good  or  the  great:  this 
is  a  sad  and  mournful  truth.  During  her  third  pregnancy,  at  a 
period  when  nature  was  least  able  to  support  her  under  the 
complicated  distresses;  participating  in  all  the  difficulties  and 
painful  anxieties  of  her  husband  during  his  political  embarrass- 
ments, for  the  recovery  of  his  natural  and  civil  rights,  which, 
though  happily  terminated,  yet  the  impression,  and  subsequent 
emotions  they  were  creative  of,  bore  too  heavy  on  her;  their  na- 
ture was  too  distressing  for  uncommon  sensibility  and  their  in- 
fluence on  her  health  and  general  system,  was  proportionately 
great,  they  being  irreparably  injured;  and  notwithstanding  she 

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was  falsely  delivered  seven  weeks^  yet  nature  so  materially  ener- 
vated was  unable  to  re-establish  herself,  and  after  a  lingering 
and  tedious  illness,  which  she  bore  with  Christian  patience  and 
composure  of  mind,  she  departed  this  life  on  the  19th  of  October, 
(1787)  in  the  thirty-fourth  year  of  her  age,  with  becoming  re- 
signation to  the  will  of  Providence.  This  Lady  had  been  born, 
bred  and  educated  a  Quaker,  and  died  firm  in  that  persuasion; 
and  although,  she  married  without  the  pale  of  their  church,  yet 
she  never  deviated  from  the  essential  points  of  their  doctrine, 
and  as  she  lived  so  she  died  in  strict  communion  with  that  faith. 
Her  burial  was  conducted,  by  her  own  request,  agreeably  to 
their  established  form,  without  ostentation,  attended  by  a  numer- 
ous company  of  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  to  the  place  of  interment, 
from  which  she  was  immediately  conveyed  to  the  family  burying 
ground  near  the  HERMITAGE.  She  left  a  disconsolate  hus- 
band, with  three  little  children,  a  beloved  and  affectionate  sister, 
whose  grief  on  this  occasion  beggars  expression,  with  other  re- 
lations, and  many  friends  and  acquaintances  to  bewail  her  loss. 
The  society  of  that  place,  in  her  death,  had  sustained  a  chasm  not 
easily  to  be  supplied.  As  a  Lady  she  was  sensible,  well-bred  and 
polite;  uniting  great  natural  delicacy  of  mind,  with  much  culti- 
vated refinement.  She  was  esteemed  in  every  circle  as  the  pleas- 
ure of  her  friends  and  acquaintances,  and  a  bright  ornament  of 
her  sex."  (From  a  Charleston  newspaper  of  November,  1787) 
"Such  a  funeral  procession  had  never  before  been  witnessed  in 
Wilmington.  The  English  stranger  was  beloved  by  all  classes 
in  society.  The  innate  refinement  of  her  mind,  her  loving  heart, 
her  winning  address,  her  humane  treatment  of  her  servants,  and 
above  all  her  constant  deportment  as  a  Christian  was  known  and 
felt  by  all  who  knew  her." 

Sixteen  years  later  (May  21,  1803)  John  Burgwin  died  at 
the  HERMITAGE  in  the  seventy-second  year  of  his  age  and 
was  laid  to  rest  among  his  dead  in  the  family  burying  ground. 

ISSUE  (4)  John  Fanning,  (5)  Caroline  Elizabeth  and  (6) 
George  William  Bush  Burgwin. 


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THIRD  GENERATION. 


(4)  JOHN  FANNING  BURGWIN,  son  of  (3),  was  born 
at  the  GROVE,  near  Thornbury,  England,  on  March  14,  1783, 
and  was  baptized  in  the  old  church  at  Thornbury  on  the  23rd  of 
April  following,  his  sponsors  being  Col.  Edmund  Fanning,  Lt. 
Gov.  of  Nova  Scotia;  Henry  King  of  Alveston,  Esquire;  Eliza- 
beth Hamilton,  proxy  for  Mrs.  Mary  Hooper  of  N.  C.  and  Sally 
Sergeant.  On  Aug.  30,  1806,  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  Pierrepont  Hunt,  the  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Eunice  (Edwards)  Hunt,  of  New  Bern,  N.  C. 
Eunice  Edwards  was  an  aunt  of  Vice  President  Aaron  Burr  and 
a  daughter  of  Johnathan  Edwards,  the  celebrated  divine.  She 
first  married  in  1764  Thomas  PoUok,  (b.  Jan.  5,  1730,  d.  1777) 
a  grandson  of  Major  General  Thomas  Pollok  and  his  wife, 
Martha  CuUen,  (b.  May  1,  1663  at  Dover,  d.  March  17, 
1700-01.)  Major  General  Pollok  was  one  of  the  most  conspic- 
uous men  in  the  early  annals  of  North  Carolina.  He  was  a 
man  of  sterling  worth,  ability  and  character  and  one  of  the 
most  prominent,  influential  and  richest  inhabitants.  He  was 
President  of  the  Council  and  became  Governor  as  the  successor 
of  Hyde.  He  was  born  in  Glasgow,  May  6th,  1654,  and  emi- 
grated to  Albermarle  in  1683  as  the  Deputy  of  Lord  Cartaret. 
He  came  from  an  ancient  family,  whose  heirs  owned  the  estates  of 
Balgre,  continuously  from  the  reign  of  James  III  of  Scotland. 
General  Pollok  was  a  stalwart  churchman,  though  one  of  the 
early  missionaries  claims  that  he  was  luke  warm  on  the  subject 
of  receiving  the  holy  communion.  Pollok  possessed  in  full 
share  the  thrift  of  the  canny  Scotchman.  In  advancing  money  to 
Baron  de  Graffenreid,  he  was  careful  to  take  a  mortgage  on  the 
lands  bought  by  him  for  the  Swiss  and  Palatine  Colonists  and 
those  lands  on  foreclosure  went  into  the  hands  of  his  heirs,  the 
massacre  of  the  whites  in  1771  so  discouraging  deGraffenreid 
that  he  returned  to  his  native  country.  (Colonial  Laymen  of 
the  Church  of  England  in  North  Carolina,  Kemp  Battle.) 

Eunice  Pollok  had  four  children  by  her  first  husband:  one  of 
whom  Frances,  born  March  18,  177 — ,  married  on  April  8. 

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JOHN  FANNING  BURGWIN 


1790^  John  Devereux  and  their  daughter  Frances  Pollok  Deve- 
reux  married  Leonidas  Polk^  First  Bishop  of  Louisiana,  and  a 
Lieutenant  General^  C.  S.  A.  Thomas  and  George  Pollok  died 
intestate  and  without  issue  and  their  property  went  to  their 
whole  sister  Frances's  (Mrs.  Devereux)  heirs  and  their  half- 
sister's  (Mrs.  J.  F.  Burgwin)  heirs. 

Sara  Pierrepont  Hunt  (d.  Apl.  17.  1823).  was  the  only  daugh- 
ter of  her  mother's  second  marriage,  and  she  was  the  mother 
of  all  of  John  Burgwin's  children.  (4)  Mr.  Burgwin  was  a 
large  merchant  doing  business  at  Fayetteville,  Wilmington^  Xew 
Bern  and  Xew  York.  He  married^  secondly^  Miss  Ellen  Barber^ 
of  Bath^  England^  but  she  died  without  issue.  Mr.  Burgwin 
died  at  Raliegh^  X.  C.  in  1864  in  the  eighty-first  year  of  his 
age. 

ISSUE:  (7)  Julia  Theodosia,  (8)  Geo.  Pollok  Alverston 
(died  young  without  issue),  (9)  Henry  King,  (10)  Thos.  Pollok 
(b.  Dec.  S,  1814  m.  Matilda  Barclay  and  died  1868  without 
issue);  (11)  John  Collinson  (d.  y.  Xo  issue);  (12)  Edward 
Devereux  (d.  y.) ;  (13)  William  Devereux  (d.  y.)  ;  (14)  Sarah 
Emily. 

CAROLIXE  ELIZABETH  BURGWIX,  (dau.  of  Xo.  3)  was 
born  at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  April  9,  1784,  the  evening  of 
the  same  day  her  parents  completed  a  ten  weeks  voyage  from 
England  to  America. 

The  follov^'ing  October  while  returning  with  her  parents  from 
a  trip  to  Xewport,  R.  I.,  an  incident  occured  which  she  tells 
most  interestingly  in  her  diary:  "Constant  head  winds  and 
stormy  weather  produced  upon  Mrs.  Burgwin  (her  mother)  and 
Sophy  (a  maid)  excessive  sea-sickness.  Priscilla  (sister  of  Mrs. 
Burgwin)  and  old  Robert,  whom  Mr.  Burgwin  always  travelled 
with  as  a  most  efficient  body  servant,  were  the  only  two  of  the 
party  capable  of  nursing.  Provisions  gave  out — the  captain 
was  constantly  intoxicated — their  situation  gloomy  indeed.  The 
baby's  (Caroline)  disease  gradually  increased  and  she  slowly  ex- 
hausted and  sank  into  the  sleep  of  death.  Priscilla,  with  that 
energy  of  mind  with  which  some  characters  are  gifted,  dressed 
and  laid  out  the  little  body,  while  the  ship's  captain  prepared 
the  box  which  was  to  guard  it  in  the  deep.    Priscilla,  through 

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one  of  those  mysterious  providences  of  God^  was  enabled  to  sit 
by  and  watch  the  little  sleeper  until  the  last  mournful  duties 
would  oblige  her  to  give  it  up.  But  there  was  an  arm  above  Who 
held  that  little  being's  soul  in  His  power  and  to  accomplish  ends 
He  alone  could  direct.  The  inebriate  captain  approached  the 
table  upon  which  the  inanimate  infant  was  laid.  From  his  li- 
quor case  he  drew  a  bottle  and  having  drunk  placed  it  upon  the 
table.  A  providence  directed  lurch  of  the  vessel  upset  the  bottle 
and  its  contents  were  emptied  upon  the  little  unconscious  body — 
its  face  and  breast  were  deluged  and  in  wiping  ofF  the  brandy 
Priscilla  imagined  she  saw  some  motion  of  the  breast.  Calling 
old  Robert  they  made  use  of  friction  with  the  application  of 
flannels  until  a  partial  animation  was  restored.  Continuing  ef- 
forts were  permitted  to  succeed:  flickering  life  became  stronger 
and  stronger  until  the  little  babe,  restored  to  strength  and  mo- 
tion, was  placed  by  the  grateful  Priscilla  in  its  astonished 
mother's  arms,  as  sick  and  languishing  and  mourning  she  lay  in 
her  stateroom.  Such  emotions  as  she  felt  are  not  to  be  de- 
fined. A  something  within  must  have  whispered  to  her:  'Cherish 
this  infant  God  has  restored  to  thee:  raise  it  for  Him — dedicate 
her  to  His  service.'  " 

The  arrival  of  her  father  with  his  English  wife  and  little  child 
at  the  HERMITAGE  is  also  vividly  described  in  the  Diary  and 
I  quote  a  part  of  it:  "With  smiling  faces  and  extended  hands 
the  negroes  from  each  plantation  had  assembled  on  the  Piazzo 
to  welcome  'Massa  and  he  new  wife.'  'Bless  de  Lord!  We'se 
got  Missus  and  little  Missus  too;  she  was  very  poor  and  walk 
sickly,  but  now  she  be  come  home  and  hab  her  own  niggers  to 
wait  on  her  she'll  do  better.  Here,  Aunt  Dolly,  let  ebry  body 
see  our  little  Missus.  God  bless  our  Massa  and  Missus.'  And 
each  faithful  creature,  shaking  the  hand  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burg- 
win,  courtesying  and  scraping  returned  to  their  little  cabins. 
Mrs.  Burgwin  pronounced  the  next  three  days  to  be  'days  of 
jubilee.'  She  had  brought  out  several  bolts  of  calico,  head 
handkerchiefs  and  hats  and  a  large  parcel  of  needles,  thread, 
etc.  The  next  day  Priscilla,  Sophy  and  herself  measured  off 
a  dress  to  each  woman,  a  hat  and  handkerchief  to  the  men,  and 
for  those  who  could  not  sew  they  cut  and  made  their  own  gowns. 

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How  often  have  I  heard  my  dear  father  relate  this  anecdote  of 
my  aunt  and  mother^  adding:  'The  time  lost  from  their  labour 
"Was  amply  made  up  by  their  after  exertion  and  gratitude.'  My 
dearest  mother  often  spoke  of  the  responsibility  to  which  Mas- 
ters and  Mistresses  were  liable  not  only  for  the  care  of  their 
Servant's  bodies  but  for  their  souls.  She  held  religious  instruc- 
tion a  duty,  and  on  Sundays  regularly  assembled  all  who  would 
attend  and  read  the  Scriptures  and  conversed  with  them." 

Soon  after  Mrs.  Burgwin's  death.  Caroline,  accompanied  by 
her  Aunt  Priscilla.  was  sent  to  England  to  be  educated  and  raised 
by  her  mother's  peojDle.  She  remained  in  England  until  Sep- 
tember. 1800.  While  there  several  of  her  years  were  spent  under 
the  guardianship  of  her  maternal  aunt.  ]\Irs.  Frances  Elizabeth 
King  (1757-1821)  wife  of  the  Rev.  Rchd.  King  and  the  author 
of  "Female  ScrijDture  Characters"  and  the  "Rector's  Memoran- 
dum Book" — two  little  volumes  which  went  through  more  than 
eleven  editions  and  were  very  popular  in  England.  Caroline 
Burgwin  was  a  cousin  of  the  Rev.  John  CoUinson^  Rector  of 
Boldon.  and  a  very  eminent  and  scholarly  divine.  He  was  the 
father  of  Capt.  Rchd.  Collinson.  R.  X..  C.B..  who  was  sent  out 
by  the  English  Admiralty  in  search  of  the  arctic  explorer.  Sir 
John  Franklin.  Capt.  CoUinson's  party  was  not  heard  from 
for  five  years  and  it  was  feared  that  he  and  his  party  were  also 
lost. 

At  Wilmington.  X.  C.  on  May  5.  1802.  Caroline  Burgwin  was 
married  to  George  Campbell  Clitherall.  of  North  Carolina^  later 
an  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  United  States  Army.  His  father 
James  Clitherall^  was  the  son  and  only  child  of  John  Clitherall. 
of  Xew  Bern^  X.  C.  John  Clitherall  married  ]\Iagdalene  Cath- 
cart  whose  mother^  Margaret  Cathcart.  was  a  descendant  of  the 
family  of  Earl  Cathcart^.  of  Scotland,  from  whence  her  father 
emigrated  in  1740.  James  Clitherall  (d.  Aug.  16.  1811)  was 
graduated  after  a  seven  years  course  in  medicine  and  surgery  at 
Edinburgh  Univerity  and  practiced  his  profession  at  Charles- 
ton^  S.  winning  an  enviable  repuation  by  his  great  skill  and 
learning.  There  he  married  Mrs.  Eliza  Inglis  Smith,  (d.  Oct. 
13,  1810)  relict  of  Thos.  Loughton  Smith  and  daughter  of  Geo. 
Inglis.    Dr.  Clitherall  was  appointed  Hospital  Surgeon's  Mate^ 


March  8,  1817;  Post  Surgeon  Apl.  18,  1818;,  and  was  retained  as 
Assistant  Surgeon  from  June  1,  1821.  He  died  Nov.  10,  1829, 
at  Fort  Johnston,  N.  C,  where  he  had  been  stationed  for  many 
years.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  charming  personality  and  at- 
tracted friends  from  every  walk  of  life.  His  brave,  cheerful 
spirit,  quiet  fortitude  and  unflinching  integrity  bore  him  not 
only  undaunted,  but  unmurmuring  through  the  many  anxieties 
and  responsibilities  of  his  arduous  life. 

Financial  reverses  over-taking  them,  Mrs.  Clitherall  conducted 
a  boarding  school  for  young  ladies,  opening  first  in  January, 
1814  at  THORNBURY,  her  home  four  miles  from  Wilmington 
on  the  east  bank  of  the  Cape  Fear.  She  also  conducted  a  school 
at  Smithville,  with  much  success  for  many  years  and  after  her 
removal  to  Alabama  in  1837  she  taught  school  at  Greensboro 
and  Tuscaloosa.  She  died  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  Oct.  9, 
1863  and  is  buried  in  Oakwood  Cemetery.  "Of  great  personal 
beauty,  which  even  old  age  seemed  reluctant  to  efface,  and  did 
not  wholly;  with  a  strong  and  active  intellect  which  had  re- 
ceived much  careful  culture  in  her  youth,  and  which  she  con- 
tinued to  cultivate  assiduously  ever  afterwards  by  judicious  read- 
ing and  an  enthusiastic  pursuit  of  useful  knowledge;  with  a  mind 
thus  furnished  with  almost  inexhaustless  resources,  which  a 
retentive  memory  and  rare  conversational  powers  made  always 
available,  and  with  a  genial  temperament,  a  kind  heart,  and  cor- 
dial affability  prompted  her  to  use  lavishly  for  the  entertainment 
of  her  friends  making  her  society,  as  all  who  have  enjoyed  it 
will  testify,  a  charm  and  fascination  to  old  and  young.  With  cul- 
tivated manners,  which  while  commanding  respect  and  making 
rudeness  blush  in  her  presence,  were  at  the  same  time  exceedingly 
winning;  and  with  uniformly  consistent  piety,  gently  asserting 
but  firmly  maintaining  sweet  control  over  and  giving  additional 
attractiveness  to  all  her  other  gifts — there  was  in  her  an  har- 
monious assemblage  of  attributes  and  graces  as  beautiful  as  it 
is  rare,  which  once  seen,  is  not  forgotten.  A  rich  legacy  must 
her  blessed  memory  be  to  her  surviving  relatives.  To  emulate 
her  virtues  would  be  a  noble  endeavour:  to  rival  her  in  grace- 
ful accomplishments,  a  worthy  ambition:  to  equal  her  in  Chris- 
tian attainments,  a  sure  guarantee  of  the  welcome  plaudit,  which 

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she  herself  has  no  doubt  received,  'Well  done  thou  good  and 
faithful  servant,  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord.'  The  Pro- 
testant Episcopal  Church,  of  which  she  was  for  many  years  a 
devout  and  zealous  member,  witnessed  in  her  a  beautiful  exem- 
plification of  the  excellence  and  fruitfulness  of  her  teachings 
when  received  into  'an  honest  and  good  heart.'  And  all  who 
knew,  as  the  writer  of  this  brief  tribute  did,  'what  manner  of 
person'  she  was  in  all  holy  conversation  and  godliness,  will  long 
remember  her  as  a  true  'mother  in  Israel'  who  walked  far  more 
nearly  than  is  often  done  'in  all  the  commandments  and  ordin- 
ances of  the  Lord  blameless.'  And  thus  'made  meete'  by  divine 
grace,  to  be  'partakers  of  the  saints  in  light.'  Though  sorely 
missed  alike  around  the  family  hearthstone,  in  the  social  circle 
and  in  the  house  of  prayer,  we  will  not  selfishly  wish  her  back 
to  earth. 

'She  sleeps  in  Jesus — calmly  sleeps: 

Then  wipe  away  the  tear. 

Which  glooms  and  dims  the  eye  that  weeps 

Because  she  is  not  here. 

The  dead  are  like  the  stars  by  day; 

Withdrawn  from  mortal  eye. 

But  not  extinct,  they  hold  their  way 

In  glory  through  the  sky.'  " 

ISSUE:  (15)  Eliza  Inglis  Clitherall;  (16)  Emily  Priscilla 
Bush,  1805-12;  (17)  James  Campbell,  1807-11;  (18)  Harriett 
Alexandrene  Smith;  (19)  Mary  Georgena,  1813-15;  (20)  Geo. 
Bush  Burgwyn;  (21)  Frances  King;  (22)  Madeleine  Mary; 
(23)  Alexander  Baron  Clitherall. 

(6)  George  William  Bush  Burgwin,  younger  son  of  No.  3, 
was  born  at  the  HERMITAGE,  Sept.  2,  1787,  about  six  weeks 
before  the  death  of  his  mother,  Eliza  Bush  Burgwin.  On  April 
7,  1807,  he  married  Miss  Maria  Nash,  daughter  of  Gov.  Abner 
Nash,  of  N.  C,  and  sister  of  Chief  Justice  Frederick  Nash. 
She  was  born  Oct.  27,  1786.  Col.  Jno.  Nash,  grandfather  of 
Mrs.  G.  W.  B.  Burgwin,  was  of  Templeton  Manor,  Va.,  and  was 
the  son  of  Abner  Nash  of  Tenby,  S.  Wales.  He  was  presiding 
judge  of  Prince  Edward  County,  an  official  in  the  colonial  army 

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and  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  of  Virginia.  Col.  Nash 
had  two  sons:  Francis^ — who  served  in  the  Revolutionary  Army 
as  a  brigadier  general  and  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  German- 
town^  Oct.  4,  1777^  while  leading  the  North  Carolina  Troops, 
and  Abner,  father  of  Mrs.  Burgwin,  who  died  in  New  York, 
Dec.  2,  1786.  He  was  a  lawyer  of  great  ability  and  of  immense 
political  influence.  He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  that  pre- 
pared the  Constitution  and  Bill  of  Rights  of  N.  C.  and  was  the 
first  speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons  of  N.  C.  and  was  the 
second  governor  of  that  State.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Federal  Congress.  Gov.  Nash  married  Mary 
Whiting  Jones,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Gov.  Bradford,  the  famous 
Governor  of  Pilgrim  Colony,  who  came  to  this  country  in  the 
Mayflotver  in  1620.  Mr.  Burgwin  farmed  on  an  extensive  scale 
and  the  cultivation  of  his  huge  rice  plantation  occupied  the  active 
years  of  his  life.  Mrs.  Burgwin  lived  only  a  short  while  after 
the  death  of  her  son,  Capt.  Burgwyn,  of  the  United  States  Dra- 
goons who  fell  at  Pueblo  de  Taos.  She  died  literally  of  a 
broken  heart. 

ISSUE:  (24)  Frances  Eliza  Bush;  (25)  Mary  Nash  (d.  y.)  ; 
(26)  John  Henry  King;  (27)  Margaret  Ann;  (28)  Caroline 
Athelia;  (29)  George  Clitherall,  (d.  y.),  (30)  Frederick  Nash 
(d.  y.)  ;  (31)  Witherspoon  Hasell;  (32)  Ann  Maria;  (33)  Sarah 
Priscilla;  (34)  Nathaniel  Hill. 

FOURTH  GENERATION. 

(7)  Julia  Theodosia  Burgwyn,  daughter  of  No.  4,  was  born 
at  Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  Sept.  30,  1807.  On  Dec.  28, 
1839  she  was  married  to  the  Rev.  Cameron  Farquahar  McRae 
(d.  Aug.  1872)  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  She  died  in  Phila- 
delphia June  19,  1853.  Rev.  McRae  later  married  Susan  Plum- 
mer  by  whom  he  had  several  children. 

ISSUE:  (McRae-Burgwyn)  (35)  Sarah  Pierrepont,  d.  Apl. 
27,  1845;  (36)  Cameron  Farquhar,  d.  May  18,  1845;  (37)  John 
Burgwyn;  (38)  Katherine  Mary,  d.  1847;  (39)  Donald  Far- 
quhar, d.  Feb.  28,  1851;  (40)  Anne  Julia,  d.  May,  1850;  (41) 
Geo.  Henry  Edwards,  d.  May,  3,  1854. 


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(9)  Henry  King  Burgwyn^  son  of  Xo.  4^  was  born  in  New 
York,  Jan.  7,  1813.  On  Xov.  29,  1838  he  married  Ann  Greje- 
nough,  (b.  Oct.  13,  1817)  of  an  old  and  distinguished  New  Eng- 
land family.  Mr.  Burgwyn  died  at  Richmond,  Va.,  Feb.  2, 
1877. 

ISSUE:  (42)  Maria  Greenough;  (-13)  Henry  King;  (44) 
William  Hyslop  Sumner;  (45)  John  Collinson  (d.  y.)  ;  (46) 
Ann  Greenough,  (d.  y.) ;  (47)  George  Pollok;  (48)  John 
Alveston;  (49)  Collinson  Pierrepont  Edwards  Burgwyn,  who 
is  a  distinguished  civil  and  hydraulic  engineer  of  Richmond,  Va. 
He  is  a  C.  E.  of  Harvard  University  and  Lawrence  Scientific 
School  and  an  A.  B.  of  Harvard  College. 

(14)  Sarah  Emily  Burgwyn,  daughter  of  Xo.  4,  died  April 
8,  1905,  in  Philadelphia.  "In  the  death  of  Miss  Burgwyn  there 
passes  away  a  lady  not  only  widely  known  and  greatly  esteemed 
in  this  country  but  also  throughout  Europe,  and  one  of  the  most 
noted  belles  of  the  fifties.  Born  in  Xorth  Carolina,  she  came  of 
distinguished  English  conservative  stock,  which  showed  itself  in 
the  career  of  her  father,  the  late  Mr.  John  Fanning  Burgwyn. 
On  her  mother's  side  she  inherited  the  mental  powers  and  high 
virtue  of  the  descendants  of  Jonathan  Edwards.  She  combined 
many  noble  and  high  qualities  with  a  winning  and  graciousness 
^f  manner  which  made  her  many  friends  during  her  long  and 
eventful  life.  Entering  Philadelphia  Society  under  the  distin- 
guished auspices  of  Judge  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Hopkinson  and  Mrs. 
Wm.  Biddle  she  met  many  of  its  most  noted  leaders  who  ac- 
corded her  a  hospitable  welcome.  Among  her  many  friends  was 
Mrs.  James  Rush,  who  chaperoned  her  when  she  visited  Sara- 
toga, Xewport  and  Boston,  accompanied  by  her  father  and 
uncle.  In  after  years,  in  speaking  of  those  times,  she  would  men- 
tion the  names  of  Willis  and  Curtis  as  among  her  friends.  Later 
in  life  she  passed  much  of  her  time  in  Europe,  and  during  her 
residence  in  Florence  she  became  the  friend  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Browning,  Mrs.  Trollope  and  Chas.  Lever.  She  had  also  the  rare 
gift  of  retaining  the  friendship  and  inspiring  affection  in  the  sons 
and  daughters  of  former  friends.  For  the  past  twenty  years 
she  has  been  living  very  quietly  with  her  niece,  ]\Iiss  Katherine 
McRae."     (Philadelphia  Evening  Bulletin,  Apl.  8,  1905). 

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(15)  Eliza  Inglis  Clitherall,  dau.  of  Dr.  George  Campbell 
Clitherall  and  his  wife  No.  5,  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C, 
June  2,  1803.  At  Smithville,  N.  C,  on  May  22,  1820,  she  was 
married  by  the  Rev.  Thos.  Wright  to  Junius  Alexander  Moore, 
(son  of  James  and  Rebecca  Davis  Moore),  a  lawyer  who  was 
born  at  BRUSH  HILL,  the  seat  of  his  father,  near  Wilmington, 
N.  C.  About  1837  Mr.  Moore  removed  to  Alabama  where  he 
continued  to  practice  his  profession  and  died  at  Tuscaloosa,  Ala., 
June  2,  1844. 

Mrs.  Eliza  Moore  was  one  of  the  most  charitable  and  gener- 
ous women  who  ever  lived  and  few  women  in  the  South  worked 
harder  than  she  for  the  comfort  of  the  Confederate  Soldier. 
"Where  is  now  Nachman  &  Meertiff's  store,  once  the  famous 
Concert  and  Estelle  Halls,  on  the  corner  of  Perry  and  Dexter 
Avenue,  was  still  another  Confederate  hospital,  the  surgeon  be- 
ing Dr.  Wm.  Holt.  Here  also  the  ladies  worked  valiantly  under 
the  direct  leadership  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Clitherall  Moore."  (Memor- 
ial Ass'n  of  Mtgy.  Its  Origin  and  Organization  by  Mary  A. 
Cory,  p.  18).  "During  the  war  there  were  many  societies  among 
the  ladies  of  Montgomery  for  the  alleviation  of  suffering,  among 
them  being  Ladies'  Aid  Societies,  where  the  good  women  met 
and  plied  their  needles  for  sweet  love's  sake.  The  President  of 
one  of  the  most  prominent  of  these  was  Mrs.  Eliza  Clitherall 
Moore,  who  with  her  able  co-laborers  worked  night  and  day  over 
the  cutting  tables  with  sewing  needles,  making  every  needful 
thing  for  the  soldiers  in  distant  camps  and  battle  fields.  Under 
her  supervision  were  even  the  bright  faced  schools  girls,  who  fled 
from  books  to  this  blessed  work  as  a  pastime  more  glorious  than 
play.  Mrs.  Moore  died  July  9,  1886.  A  more  devoted  Con- 
federate never  ministered  to  the  wounded  and  dying.  Never 
did  she  waver  until  'The  warrior's  banner  winged  its  flight  to 
greet  the  warrior's  soul.'  "  (ID.  p.  10). 

Junius  A.  Moore  "was  gifted  with  talents  of  the  highest  order, 
to  which  he  had  added  a  fund  of  rich  and  varied  information. 
As  a  scholar  he  was  eminent  alike  for  his  profund  learning,  and 
the  beautifully  chaste  and  classic  style  which  characterized  his 
conversation  and  writings.  His  life  as  a  husband  and  father 
was  most  tender,  gentle  and  affectionate.    Kindness,  generosity. 


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and  amiability  marked  all  his  intercourse  with  his  fellows.  He 
was,  indeed,  'a  gentleman  of  the  old  school/  and  the  tear  of 
sympathy  shed  by  many  friends  testified  that  his  family  were 
not  solitary  in  their  bereavement;  but  ere  'Life's  fitful  fever 
o'er'  he  gave  them  a  rich  source  of  consolation,  in  the  declaration 
of  his  belief  that  his  prayers  were  heard  and  accepted  at  the 
throne  of  grace — that  his  peace  was  made  with  God."  (Obit- 
uary from  old  Tuscaloosa  paper.)  His  personal  qualities  en- 
deared him  to  many  friends  and  his  loyalty  and  devotion  to  them 
were  marked  traits  of  his  character. 

He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  James  Moore  (1640-1706) 
Governor  of  South  Carolina  in  1700  and  later  Attorney  General 
of  the  Province.  "Jas.  Moore  was  a  bold,  adventurous  man,  of 
high  spirit,  unflinching  courage  and  strong  mind  and  he  soon 
became  a  leader  of  men.  He  was  one  of  the  ablest  soldiers  of 
the  Province  and  had  greatly  distinguished  himself  in  the  nu- 
merous wars  with  the  Spanish  and  Indians."  (Address  of 
Junius  Davis  before  Sup.  Ct.  of  N.  C,  Apl.  29,  1899).  "He  was 
a  hot  headed  Irishman,  said  to  be  the  son  of  the  Irish  Chieftain 
Roger  Moore,  who  as  Hume  says  'First  formed  the  project  of 
expelling  the  English  and  asserting  the  independence  of  his 
native  country'  and  who  had  been  a  leader  in  the  revolt  after 
Strafford.  (1641)  He  was  the  type  of  his  countrymen,  the  type 
also  of  the  'gentleman  adventurer'  who  had  sailed  with  Drake 
and  Raleigh  two  generations  before.  He  had  come  from  Bar- 
badoes  where  he  had  married  Elizabeth,  the  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Yeamans,  had  led  a  bold  and  adventurous  life,  had  pene- 
trated the  wilderness,  traded  and  fought  with  the  Indians,  cros- 
sed the  Appalachians  and  found  traces  of  gold  there.  *  *  * 
Moore  planned  and  carried  out  successfully  an  expedition  against 
the  Appalachian  Indians,  who,  living  northwest  of  St.  Augus- 
tine, were  not  only  the  allies  and  pupils,  but  the  food  purveyors 
of  the  Spaniards.  With  fifty  white  men  and  some  Indians,  Moore 
marched  against  and  stormed  seven  well-made  Spanish-Indian 
forts  securing  many  prisoners  and  considerable  booty.  This 
expedition  besides  costing  the  government  nothing  taught  the 
Indians  great  respect  for  the  whites."     (Ravenel,  Charleston — 


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the  Pirfce  and  the  People).  Gov.  Moore's  eldest  son,  James, 
also  became  Governor  of  S.  C.  (1720). 

Col.  Maurice  Moore,  younger  son  of  Jas  Moore  (1640-1706), 
acompanied  his  brother  in  1712,  as  an  officer  in  the  expedition 
against  the  Tuscaroras.  While  there  he  married  the  first  time, 
Mary  Porter,  dau.  of  John  Porter  and  his  wife  Sarah  Lillington 
who  was  a  daughter  of  Gov.  Alexr.  Lillington.  The  old  saying 
that  there  is  no  love  like  mother  love  was  given  heroic  exempli- 
fication by  Sarah  Lillington  Porter.  During  the  terrible  Indian 
Massacre  in  1711  her  home  was  attacked  by  Indians  and  a 
powerful  warrior  seized  her  infant  child  and  was  about  to  dash 
its  brains  out  against  a  tree  when  the  mother  rushed  up;  leaping 
upon  the  warrior  she  bore  him  to  the  ground  and  rescued  her 
child.  A  few  minutes  later  her  husband  (Jno.  Porter,  Jr.)  and 
friends  came  up  and  the  little  party  managed  to  reach  the  river 
and  make  their  escape.  The  Indians  however  burned  their  little 
home.    (Ashe's  Hist.  N.  C.  Vol.  I,  p..  183). 

To  Maurice  Moore  belongs  the  honor  of  founding,  about  1725, 
Brunswick,  the  first  permanent  settlement  of  the  Cape  Fear  re- 
gion. Maurice  was  a  brother  of  "Old  King  Roger"  Moore,  so 
called  because  of  his  great  wealth  and  numerous  slaves.  One  of 
the  last  battles  with  the  Indians  of  the  Cape  Fear  was  fought 
by  old  "King  Roger"  and  his  slaves  at  Sugar  Loaf.  (Ashe's 
Hist.  N.  C,  Vol.  1).  Col.  Maurice  Moore  "was  a  churchman,  at 
one  time  sharing  with  Mosely  the  distiction  of  being  the  strongest 
man  in  the  Province  of  N.  C.  He  was  a  son  of  the  first  Gov. 
Jas.  Moore,  of  S.  C,  whose  ancestors  belonged  to  one  of  the 
oldest  and  most  influential  families  of  Ireland,  of  which  the  Mar- 
quis Drogheda  is  the  present  (1892)  head.  Moore  exerted  a 
commanding  influence  on  his  community."  (Kemp  P.  Battle). 
His  two  sons  were  ardent  patriots  and  distinguished  men  of  the 
Province,  Maurice,  being,  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution 
one  of  the  three  judges  of  the  Province;  James  was  a  colonel 
of  the  First  N.  C.  Continental  Regiment  and  was  a  Brigadier 
General  in  March,  1776.  A  few  months  after,  upon  the  de- 
parture of  Lee  for  the  North,  Congress  made  him  commander  in 
chief  of  the  Southern  Department.  He  and  his  brother  both 
died  at  Wilmington  on  the  same  day  (Jan.  15,  1777)  and  in  the 

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same  house.  General  James  Moore  (son  of  Maurice  and  Mary 
Porter  Moore)  married  Ann  Ivey  and  had  several  daughters  and 
two  sons,  one  of  the  latter,  James  Moore,  a  planter  who  died  in 
1802,  married  Rebecca  Davis.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Thos. 
Davis  and  Mary  Moore  who  was  a  dau.  of  Geo.  Moore,  (b.  Dec. 
24,  1815)  son  of  "Old  King  Roger"  Moore  and  husband  of  Mary 
Ashe,  (b.  March  5,  1723,  m.  March  19,  1729,  d.  Apl.  2,  1761). 

Mary  Ashe's  father  was  Lieut.  John  Baptista  Ashe,  a  man  of 
wealth,  a  lawyer  and  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  in  1727.  "Ashe 
was  a  man  of  independent  mind;  of  fearless  temper,  a  devoted 
friend  to  liberty  and  an  indomitable  opponent  of  oppression  and 
the  exercise  of  illegal  authority."  He  died  prior  to  May,  1735, 
and  is  buried  at  GROVE  LY,  his  plantation  nine  miles  from 
Wilmington.  Lieut.  Ashe  married  Elizabeth  Swann,  (b.  June 
26,  1699),  dau.  of  Colonel  Sam'l.  Swann  who  died  in  1707  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth  Lillington  whom  he  married  May  19,  1698. 
Elizabeth  Lillington  was  a  daughter  of  Dep.  Gov.  Alexander 
Lillington.  James  Moore  and  his  wife  Rebecca  Davis  Moore  had 
two  children:  Sophia,  who  married  Samuel  Strudwick  and  Junius 
Alexander,  above  mentioned. 

Elizabeth  Yeamans,  wife  of  James  Moore,  Governor  of  S.  C. 
in  1700,  was  a  grand-daughter  of  Robert  Yeamans,  a  Cavalier 
and  High  Sheriff  of  Bristol  in  1643.  "So  devoted  to  the  cause 
of  Charles  was  Robt.  Yeamans,  and  so  sturdily  and  bravely  did 
he  bear  himself  in  defense  of  that  city,  that  upon  its  capture 
Fairfax,  in  his  wrath  hanged  him  in  the  street  opposite  his 
dwelling."  In  1814,  in  opening  a  vault  in  St.  Maryport  Church 
Bristol,  the  body  of  Yeamans,  in  a  coffin  of  great  antiquity, 
deeply  concealed,  was  discovered  and  was  in  the  "highest  state  of 
preservation,  handsomely  accoutered  in  the  costume  of  that 
day,  with  gloves  similar  to  those  which  Sheriffs  wear  at  present." 
His  son,  Sir  John  Yeamans,  wearied  of  the  strife  and  persecu- 
tion of  the  civil  war,  sought  rest  and  peace  in  the  Barbadoes, 
and  by  his  ability  established  a  reputation  and  accumulated 
wealth  and  in  1661  was  knighted  by  Charles  II.  on  account 
of  his  father's  services  and  his  own  merit.  He  was  made  a 
Landgrave  and  Governor  of  South  Carolina,  and  administered  the 
government  faithfully  and  ably,  though  much  to  the  dissatis- 

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faction  of  a  certain  element  of  the  colonists,  and  finally  the 
Proprietors,  from  selfish  motives  arising  out  of  trade  competi- 
tion, sacrificed  him  in  the  hope  of  appeasing  that  element  and 
saving  money  for  themselves,  whereupon  he  returned  to  Barba- 
does  and  soon  died  there.  (Waddell:  Early  Explorers  of  the 
Cape  Fear;  Sprunt:  Old  Brunswick.^  His  daughter  as  stated 
above,  married  James  Moore.  "It  was  a  singular  destiny  which 
brought  about  this  alliance  and  mingled  in  its  offspring  the  blood 
of  the  Irish  Rebel  with  that  of  the  English  Cavalier."  (Junius 
Davis:  Address  Apl.  29,  1899). 

ISSUE:  (50)  Georgena  Rebecca  Moore;  (51)  Caroline 
Sophia  Moore;  (52)  Emily  Geraldine  Moore,  b.  at  Smithville, 
N.  C,  Nov.  29,  1830,  d.  Nov.  17,  1832. 

(18)  Harriett  Alexandrene  Clitherall,  dau.  of  No.  5  and  her 
husband  Dr.  Geo.  C.  Clitherall,  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C, 
June  9,  1809.  In  1829  she  married  Major  Samuel  Spotts,  who 
was  appointed  from  Delaware  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  First  U.  S. 
Artillery,  Feb.  10,  1812.  In  1815  he  was  promoted  for  gallant 
conduct  at  the  seige  of  New  Orleans  when  he  commanded  the 
American  Artillery.  He  resigned  from  the  Army  in  May,  1829. 
Mrs.  Spotts  died  at  Green  River,  Ky.,  June  10,  1834. 

ISSUE:  (53)  Caroline  Eliza  Spotts  (d.  y.) ;  (54)  Saml. 
Wm.  Byron  Spotts,  b.  Feb.  15,  1832. 

(20)  Geo.  Bush  Burgwyn  Clitherall,  son  of  No.  5  and  her 
husband  Dr.  Clitherall,  was  born  at  Ft.  Johnston,  N.  C.  June 
13,  1814.  On  Sept.  1,  1836  he  married  Sallie  Ann  Forbes,  of 
New  Bern  and  died  at  Mobile  in  October,  1889. 

ISSUE:    (55)  Elizabeth  Forbes  Burgwyn  Clitherall. 

(21)  Frances  Elizabeth  King  Clitherall,  dau.  of  No.  5  and 
her  husband  Dr.  Clitherall,  was  born  Oct.  11,  1817,  at  Ft.  John- 
ston, N.  C.  Most  of  her  early  life  was  spent  in  New  Bern,  N.  C. 
where  she  was  confirmed  by  Bishop  Ives  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  In  1835  she  married  John  Adam  Moore  Battle.  Mrs. 
Frances  Battle  died  at  Mobile  on  the  16th  of  Feb.,  1849.  "Pos- 
sessed naturally  of  unusual  loveliness  of  mind  and  person,  she 
had  added  the  still  more  beautiful  ornament  of  a  meek  and  quiet 
spirit,  which  in  the  sight  of  God  is  of  great  price.  Having  very 
early  in  life,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  renewed  her  baptismal  vows, 

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and  joined  in  full  communion  with  the  Church,  all  her  faculties 
and  powers  were  consecrated  to  God's  service.  Religion  was  the 
work  of  her  life,  and  all  who  knew  her  can  testify  how  diligently 
she  sought  to  do  that  work,  how  ardent  and  joyful  was  her  piety 
how  benevolent  her  feelings  and  unbounded  her  charity.  Like 
her  Divine  Lord,  according  to  the  meausure  of  her  gift  of  grace, 
"she  went  about  doing  good."  The  church  of  her  affections,  and 
the  Church's  poor,  were  ever  in  her  thoughts  and  her  chief  objects 
of  interest,  and  they,  next  to  her  family,  will  be  the  keenest  suf- 
ferers by  her  removal  from  earth.  As  few,  probably,  have  ever 
approached  nearer  the  stature  of  a  perfect  Christian  wife  and 
mother,  so  very  few  have  ever  made  their  influence  more  gener- 
ally and  permanently  felt  in  the  congregations  and  communities 
of  which  they  were  members,  than  she  did  in  Mobile.  Her 
Christian  character  grew  brighter  and  brighter  every  hour  dur- 
ing her  life,  her  joy  and  peace  more  permanent,  her  frame  of 
mind  more  spiritual."     (From  the  'Banner  of  the  Cross'.) 

ISSUE:  (56)  Annie  E.;  (57)  Caroline  Georgena  m.  Judge 
Egbert  H.  Granden;  (58)  Mollie,  m.  Robert  T.  Stannard,  Jan. 
7,  1861.  (59)  Samuel  G.  (1842-1893,  (60)  James,  b.  1844; 
(61)  George  C.  b.  1846;  (62)  Fanny,  b.  1848. 

(22)  Mary  Madeleine  Clitherall,  dau.  of  No.  5  and  her 
husband  Dr.  Clitherall,  was  b.  May  8,  1818.  She  first  married 
in  October,  1836,  George  Lovick  Jones,  of  Tuscaloosa,  Alabama. 

ISSUE:  (63)  George  Clitherall  Jones;  (64)  Eliza  Clithe- 
rall Jones,  b.  1840,  m.  Capt.  Lewis  Neill  Huck.  She  is  now  liv- 
ing at  Mobile,  Alabama.     (65)  Harvey  Ellis  Jones. 

Mrs.  G.  L.  Jones,  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Jones,  married  on 
March  4,  1851,  her  brother-in-law,  John  Adam  Moore  Battle,  at 
Tuscaloosa,  Alabama.  By  her  second  marriage  she  had  issue  as 
follows:  (66)  Alexander  Clitherall  Battle,  b.  May  2,  1852  d. 
y.;  (67)  Netta  Battle;  (68)  Frank  Battle,  b.  Nov.  25,  1855. 
Married  Jennie  Hall  and  lives  in  California.  (69)  John  Scott 
Battle  b.  June  1,  1859;  (70)  Walter  Granden  Battle. 

(23)  The  youngest  son  of  Dr.  George  Campbell  Clitherall 
and  his  wife  (5)  Caroline  Burgwyn,  Alexander  Baron  Clitherall, 
was  born  at  Smithville,  Brunswick  Co.,  N.  C,  Dec.  12,  1820. 
Receiving  his  collegiate  education  in  his  native  state  he  later  at- 

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tended  college  in  Pennsylvania  where  his  course  was  interrupted 
by  the  removal  of  his  mother^  in  1837,  to  Greene  Co.,  Ala.  For  a 
while  he  was  a  clerk  in  his  brother's  (Geo.  B.  Clitherall)  store 
at  Greensboro.  In  1839  he  removed  to  Tuscaloosa  to  study 
law  under  the  Hon.  E.  Woolsey  Peck,  later  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Alabama.  He  was  licensed  to  practice  in  1841 
and  the  year  following  he  removed  to  Pickens  County,  Alabama, 
where  on  June  30,  1844,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Kate 
Hayes,  (b.  Mann,  Miss.  July  26,  1828),  daughter  of  James  and 
Martha  Coles  Hayes.  Mr.  Clitherall  located  at  CarroUton 
where  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  and  for  many  years  the 
firm  of  Clitherall  &  Willett  was  one  of  the  leading  law  firms  in 
the  State.  From  1842  to  1852  he  was  assistant  or  principal 
clerk  of  the  Ala.  House  of  Representatives  and  in  February, 
1854  he  was  appointed,  by  Gov.  John  A.  Winston,  judge  of  the 
Seventh  Judicial  Circuit  and  held  the  Spring  Term  of  that  Court. 
Judge  Clitherall  served  ably  and  won  for  himself  an  enviable  re- 
putation. He  presided  in  the  case  of  the  State  vs.  Eskridge,  a 
white  planter  of  Sumter  County,  who  was  indicted  for  mayhem 
by  shooting  one  of  his  slaves  in  the  leg  with  a  shot-gun.  The 
defendant  was  convicted  and  sentenced  by  Judge  Clitherall  to 
eleven  years  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary.  It  was  the  first 
time  so  severe  a  punishment  had  been  visited  upon  a  slave- 
holder and  the  case  aroused  great  interest.  One  newspaper  com- 
menting upon  the  case  said:  "We  rejoice  that  so  signal  an  es- 
ample  has  been  made  and  that  righteous  retribution  has  visited 
one  of  that  class  of  brutal  slave-holders,  small  as  that  class  is, 
whose  bad  actions  have  done  so  much  to  bring  disrepute  upon  the 
South.  We  commend  this  verdict  and  sentence  to  Mrs.  Stowe 
and  her  associates." 

In  June  of  the  same  year  he  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Winston, 
judge  of  the  Probate  Court  of  Pickens  County.  He  evinced  upon 
the  circuit  bench  and  as  probate  judge  both  legal  ability  and 
business  habits,  added  to  quickness  of  perception  and  sound 
judgment.  In  1857  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  from  Pic- 
kens and  was,  perhaps,  the  best  parliamentarian  in  that  body. 
In  1859  he  became  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  Alabama 
General  Assembly.    Judge  Clitherall  became  a  citizen  of  Mont- 

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gomery  in  1861  and  was  temporary  private  secretary  to  Jefferson 
Davis^  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  as  such 
carried  President  Davis'  first  message,  appointing  his  cab- 
inet, to  the  Confederate  Congress.  For  a  short  while  he 
served  as  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Confederate  Congress,  and 
while  in  this  capacity  prepared  the  original  Constitution  of  the 
Confederate  States.  He  compiled  and  arranged  the  engrossed 
copy  from  the  original  manuscript  and  had  a  printed  copy  made 
with  wide  marginal  notes  and  this  copy  as  made  by  Judge  Cli- 
therall  was  read  to  the  Confederate  Congress.  After  all  amend- 
ments were  in,  the  copy  as  thus  arranged  was  read  to  the  adopt- 
ing body  and  was  then  voted  on  and  adopted  as  the  permanent 
Constitution  of  the  Confederacy.  This  instrument  is  now  in  the 
possesion  of  a  daughter  of  Judge  Clitherall,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Birch, 
of  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Shortly  after,  he  was  appointed  Register  of  the  Confederate 
Treasury  Department,  serving  his  country  at  Montgomery  and 
Richmond  until  his  failing  health  forced  him  to  return  to  the 
former  place.  Judge  Clitherall  has  the  distinction  of  being  the 
first  person  to  call  for  cheers  for  the  first  Confederate  flag.  This 
flag  was  unveiled  at  SA5  P.  M.,  March  4,  1861,  from  the  Capi- 
tol Building  at  Montgomery  and  an  old  newspaper  states: 
"Judge  Clitherall  of  the  Treasury  Department,  standing  on  the 
roof  against  the  flag-staff,  a  picture  of  patriotic  animation  called 
for  'Three  cheers  for  the  Confederate  flag' — and  the  spirit  that 
flamed  behind  the  answering  cheers,  if  not  the  cheers  themselves, 
made  itself  heard  'round  the  world  and  down  the  echoing  cor- 
ridors of  history.'  " 

Judge  Clitherall  was  over  six  feet  tall  and  spare.  "His  intel- 
lect was  bright  and  quick.  Almost  without  and  effort  it  seemed 
to  seize  hold  of  and  illume  every  part  of  a  complicated  question, 
enabling  him  at  once  to  present  to  others  his  conclusions  with 
great  clearness.  And  he  was  as  witty,  and  as  happy  in  repartee, 
as  Sydney  Smith.  No  'quip  modest,'  nor  in  fact  any  other  sort 
of  quip,  was  ever  directed  at  him,  which  did  not  meet  with  an 
immediate  'retort  courteous,'  and  the  retort  was  generally  the 
more  effective  of  the  two.  His  witticisms  were  sometimes  char- 
acterized by  all  the  keenness  of  the  edge  and  deftness  of  manage- 

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ment  of  the  scimitar  of  Saladin  in  dividing  the  cushion — some- 
times all  the  down  right  force  of  the  sword  of  Cour  de  Lion  in 
cleaving  the  iron  bar.  And  yet  such  hearty  good  humor  accom- 
panied the  strokes — emphatically  strokes  of  pleasantry — that 
they  never  left  a  wound  behind  them.  If  one  was  at  any  time 
inflicted,  like  that  received  by  Percie  Shafton  in  the  glen  of  Cora 
nan  shian,  it  was  instantly  healed  by  the  'White  lady  of  the 
heart.'  Although  before  Clitherall's  death  years  had  silvered  his 
hair,  he  retained  in  a  singular  degree  his  youthful  freshness  of 
feeling. 

"A  mirthful  man  he  was — the  snows  of  age 
Fell,  but  they  did  not  chill  him.  Gayety, 
Even  in  life's  closing  touched  his  teeming  brain 
With  such  wild  visions  as  the  setting  sun 
Raises  in  front  of  some  hoar  glacier 
Painting  the  bleak  ice  with  a  thousand  hues." 

He  was  full  of  merriment,  indeed  some  rather  thought  he  had 
too  much;  but  it  should  be  said  that  beneath  all  the  glittering 
effervescence  was  the  purest  wine  of  generositiy,  courage  and 
integrity,  joined  with  a  love  for  his  friends  as  strong  and  as 
lasting  as  life.  Many  were  benefitted  by  his  virtues — none  save 
himself  were  injured  by  his  faults."  (S.  S.  Scott:  Reminiscen- 
ces Ala.  Legislatures.)  During  a  'mock  session'  Judge  Clith- 
erall  introduced  the  following  resolution  aimed  at  a  one-eyed 
member  who  was  constantly,  in  season  and  out  of  season,  harp- 
ing on  the  'interests  of  the  poor  of  Alabama':  Resolved,  That 
the  gentleman  from  C.  has  an  eye  single  to  the  'interests  of  the 
poor  of  Alabama.' 

Judge  Clitherall  died  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  Feb.  17, 
1869,  in  the  prime  of  life.  He  was  not  only  a  brilliant  lawyer, 
but  a  poet  of  no  mean  ability,  a  writer,  public  speaker  and  ora- 
tor. He  was  a  man  of  jovial  and  congenial  nature  and  was  al- 
ways, on  account  of  his  wit  and  humor,  in  demand  as  a  speaker 
on  all  public  occasions.  He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the 
press  and  at  one  time  edited  the  West  Alahamian,  a  Democratic 
newspaper  of  CarroUton,  Alabama.  Some  of  his  humorous 
sketches  rivalled  those  of  Jonse  Hopper.    Mrs.  Clitherall  sur* 

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*  vived  her  husband  many  years  and  died  at  Montgomery  only  a 

few  years  ago. 

ISSUE:  (71)  Ida;  (72)  Fannie  Battle;  (73)  Madeline;  (74) 
Mary;  (75)  Geo.  Burgwyn,  all  of  whom  died  in  infancy;  (76) 
Minnie;  (77)  Mattie;  (78)  Allie  Burgwyn. 

(24)  Frances  Eliza  Bush  Burgwin.  eldest  daughter  of  Xo. 
6,  was  b.  Jan.  26,  1808  and  died  Oct.  SI,  1839.  On  Jan.  10, 
1828  she  married  William  Edward  Anderson  who  died  at  Wil- 
mington, Dec.  5,  1852. 

ISSUE:    (79)  Mary  Bird  Anderson,  b.  Jan.  18,  1829,  sing. 
(80)  George  Burgwin;  (81)  Elizabeth  Ogden,  b.  Apl.  29,  1833 

(82)  William  E.,  b.  Xov.  29,  1835,  m.  Molly  Syme;  no  issue 

(83)  Robert  Walker,  b.  Jan.  23,  1838;  m.  Rebecca  Cameron 

/  olul-i  ^^crr.  350^  4s  sue.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  Army;  was 
'      ^  wounded  at  Sharpsburg  and  was  killed  in  the  Wilderness  on 

.-rji\^^n  May  5,  1864. 

(26)     John  Henry  King  Burgwin,  eldest  son  of  Xo.  6,  was 
a  cadet  at  the  United  States  ^Military  Academy  from  July  1, 
1826  to  July  1,  1830,  when  he  was  graduated  and  appointed 
.  2nd  Lieutenant  of  the  First  United  States  Dragoons;  he  was 

promoted  to  1st  Lieutenant,  June  1,  1838,  and  to  Captain,  July 
31,  1837.  During  the  Mexican  War  he  was  ordered  to  ^Mexico 
and  he  and  his  command,  after  their  arrival,  were  sent  by  Col. 
Price  to  fight  Mexicans  posted  on  a  gorge  leading  to  Emdubo. 
"Capt.  Burgwin  found  them  600  strong,  posted  on  the  pre- 
cipitous sides  of  the  mountains,  where  the  gorge  would  only  ad- 
mit the  passage  of  three  men  abreast.  There  could  scarcely  be 
a  better  position  for  defence,  yet  Captain  Burgwin  drove  them 
from  it,  with  the  loss,  on  their  part,  of  twenty  killed  and  sixty 
wounded.  He  had  only  one  man  killed  and  wounded.  Fie 
marched  through  the  pass  and  entered  Emdubo.  From  thence 
he  marched  to  Trampas,  where  he  met  Col.  Price,  and  the 
whole  army  marched  over  the  Taos  mountain,  breaking  a  road 
through  the  snow  which  covered  it  for  their  artillery.  The 
enemy  were  found  to  have  fortified  Pueblo  de  Taos,  a  place 
of  great  strength,  surrounded  by  adobe  walls  and  strong  pickets, 
every  part  of  which  was  flanked  by  some  projecting  building. 
He  opened  his  batteries  on  the  town  on  the  3rd  of  Febraury, 

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(1847)  but  in  a  little  while  retired  to  wait  the  concentration  oi 
forces.  On  the  4th  at  nine  o'clock  in  the  mornings  the  fire  was 
again  opened^  and  at  eleven,  finding  it  was  impossible  to  make  Si 
breach  in  the  walls  with  the  howitzers,  the  colonel  determined 
to  storm  the  church,  which  was  in  the  northwestern  angle  of  the 
town.  Capt.  Burgwin  lead  the  attack.  His  party  established 
themselves  under  the  western  walls  of  the  church,  and  attempted 
to  breach  it  with  axes,  while  the  roof  was  fired  by  the  help  of  a 
temporary  ladder.  In  this  emergency  the  gallant  commander 
exposed  himself  fatally  to  the  enemy.  Capt.  Burgwin  left  the 
shelter  afforded  by  the  flank  of  the  church,  and  penetrated  into 
the  corral  in  front  of  the  building  and  endeavored  to  force  the 
door.  Burgwin,  in  his  daring  effort,  received  a  wound  whicfe 
caused  his  death  on  the  7th  of  February."  (Frost's  Pictorial 
History  of  Mexico  and  the  Mexican  War,  p.  461). 

His  body  was  first  interred  at  Ft.  Leavenworth  but  in  the  fol- 
lowing December  Capt.  Burgwin's  remains  were  brought  back 
to  the  State  he  loved  so  well  and  was  received  at  Wilmington 
with  honors  benefitting  the  noble  dead.  Thousands  stood  with 
bared  heads  and  tear  stained  faces  as  the  funeral  procession 
approached  Front  St.  The  mournful  calvacade  halted  in  front 
of  the  Cape  Fear  Bank  building,  from  the  portico  of  which 
Joshua  G.  Wright,  a  brilliant  lawyer  and  a  gentleman  of  su- 
perb oratorical  powers,  delivered  an  eloquent  eulogium,  whose 
touching  and  beautiful  sentences  brought  tears  to  every  eye. 
The  body  was  then  borne  to  the  HERMITAGE,  accompanied 
by  a  large  escort  of  the  first  citizens  of  Wilmington,  and  laid  to 
rest  in  the  family  burying  ground.  Later  it  was  removed  t(? 
Oakdale  Cemetery  where  a  handsome  monument  now  marks  the 
final  resting  place  of  this  brave  and  noble  American  soldier. 

"On  Fame's  eternal  camping-ground 
Their  silent  tents  are  spread. 
And  Glory  guards  with  solemn  round 
The  bivouac  of  the  dead." 

Captain  Burgwin  was  as  "brave  as  a  lion,  yet  refined  and 
gentle  as  a  woman.    His  death  was  mourned  as  a  loss,  not  alone 

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to  his  friends  and  family^  but  to  his  country.  He  was  un- 
married^ but  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  engaged  to  a  young 
lady  of  great  accomplishments,  and  his  last  act,  ere  his  life  ter- 
minated, was  to  take  from  his  finger  a  ring  and  give  it  to  a 
friend  who  bent  over  him  to  deliver  to  her  with  farewell  mes- 
sages of  tenderness  and  love."  (Am.  Mag.  of  Hist.  Vol.  16, 
p.  441.) 

It  is  related  that  after  the  church  at  Pueblo  de  Taos  was  taken 
and  as  Capt.  Burgwin's  wounded  body  lay  on  the  ground,  one 
of  the  surrendered  Mexicans  passing  by,  exultingly  remarked: 
"I  shot  that  dam  Captain!" — the  attacking  party  were  picked 
off  thru  barricaded  windows.  One  of  Capt.  Burgwin's  men, 
hearing  the  remark,  in  his  frenzy  of  grief,  forgot  all  prudence 
and  rushed  upon  the  Mexican,  attacking  him  fiercely.  The 
soldier  was  of  course  arrested  and  taken  prisoner  to  Ft.  Leaven- 
worth and  sentenced  to  imprisonment  with  ball  and  chain  for 
several  months..  The  lady  to  whom  Capt.  Burgwin  was  engaged 
was  at  this  garrison  and  often  at  night  heard  the  soldier's  ner- 
vous tramp  and  the  clanking  of  the  ball  and  chain  and  so  tor- 
tured was  she,  knowing  the  cause  of  it,  that  she  secretly  bribed 
the  guard  to  let  the  soldier  escape. 

(27)  Margaret  Anne  Burgwyn,  dau.  of  No.  6,  was  b.  Nov.  1, 
1811.  On  Sept.  21,  1829  she  married  Samuel  Iredell  Johnston, 
D.  D.,  a  grandson  of  Gov.  Gabriel  Johnston,  of  N.  C.  Mrs. 
Johnston  died  November  16,  1886.  ;  ,      -..  ^  ' 

ISSUE:  (84)  Samuel,  d.  y.;  (85)  James  Catheart,  b.  1834; 
d.  Dec.  1888.  Married  Catherine,  dau.  of  Dr.  Wm.  Warren, 
who  died  Feb.  22,  1889.  They  had  six  children,  among  them: 
Katherine,  Frances,  Samuel  I,  William,  and  Margaret,  all  of 
whom  live  in  Texas.  (86)  Maria  Nash,  b.  1836,  d.  1907,  mar- 
ried Rev.  Francis  W.  Hilliard  and  had  issue:  i.  Margaret;  ii. 
Katherine:  iii.  Elizabeth;  iv.  Iredell;  v.  Foster  who  married 
Miss  Sewell  and  lives  in  Memphis,  Tenn.;  (87)  Elizabeth  Cot- 
ton, b.  Feb.  22,  1838.  She  married  Dr.  Edward  Warren-Bey, 
an  eminent  physician  and  author  of  "A  Doctor's  Experiences  in 
Three  Continents,"  and  had  issue:  i.  Elizabeth  Cotton;  ii.  Innis 
who  married  Frank  Bizzell  and  had  issue :  a.  Frank  and  b.  Mary 
Prince;  (88)  Gabriel,  D.  D.  who  was  born  in  1842  and  died 
Jan.  5,  1913.    He  was  a  clergyman  of  the  Episcopal  Church  and 

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had  issue:  i.  Mary^  ii.  Margaret  m,  Henry  Macomb  who  is  a 
lawyer  of  Welland,  Ont.  iii.  Margaret  who  m.  and  had  issue:  a. 
Hudson  and  b.  Gabriel,  iv.  Emma  Killarly;  v.  Katherine  m. 
Herbert  Sidey^,  a  newspaper  owner  of  Welland,  Ont.  (89)  Capt. 
Geo.  B.  Johnson,  C.  S.  A.  b.  1840,  killed  in  1864.  He  married 
Nanie,  dau.  of  Dr.  Chas.  E.  Johnson.  (90)  Twins  who  d.  y. 
(91)  Iredell,  died  single.  (92)  Helen  S.  b.  1844,  married  in 
1869  Dr.  Jno.  D.  Perry  and  had  issue:  i.  Abner,  d.  y.  ii.  Mar- 
garet, m.  James  M.  Norman  and  had  issue  Jas.  Marshall  Nor- 
man. (93)  John  Johnston,  b.  1846,  m.  Ida  Lytle  and  d.  1877. 
(9Sa)  Frances  Ann,  b.  March  31,  1858,  d.  1907.  She  married 
John  D.  Parker  and  had  issue:  i.  John,  m.  Maria  Maffitt,  ii. 
Sara.  iii.  Margaret,  m.  Frank  Deas  and  has  issue  Johnston  Deas ; 
iv.  S.  I.  J.  Parker;  v.  Caroline  Ashe,  m.  Chas,  Dexter. 

(28)  Caroline  Athelia  Burgwyn,  dau.  of  No.  6,  was  born 
June  5,  1814,  and  on  June  13,  1837  she  married  Thomas  Sam- 
uel Ashe,  later  an  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
North  Carolina. 

Judge  Ashe  was  born  in  Orange  Co.,  N.  C,  July  21,  1812, 
and  was  the  son  of  Paschal  P.  and  Eliza  Strudwick  Ashe.  He 
graduated  from  Chapel  Hill  in  1832  and  read  law  under  Chief 
Justice  Ruffin,  receiving  his  license  to  practise  in  1836.  He 
represented  Anson  County  in  the  House  of  Commons  in  1842, 
and  in  the  Senate  in  1854  and  was  Solicitor  of  the  Judicial  Dis- 
trict in  which  he  resided  from  1848  to  1852.  Judge  Ashe  became 
a  member  of  the  Confederate  House  of  Representatives  and  was 
later  elected  a  Senator  of  the  Confederate  States.  In  1868  he 
was  the  democratic  candidate  for  Governor  of  N.  C.  and  in  1872 
was  elected  a  Representative  to  the  U.  S.  Congress  and  re- 
elected in  1874.  In  1878  he  was  elected  Associate  Justice  of 
the  N.  C.  Sup.  Ct.,  and  was  re-elected  in  1886.  He  was  a 
vestry-man  of  Calvary  Church,  Wadesboro,  N.  C.  for  thirty- 
two  years,  and  died  at  his  home  in  that  town  at  11:45  A.  M., 
Friday,  Feb.  4th,  1887,  in  his  seventy-fifth  year. 

"In  the  various  relations  of  life,  Judge  Ashe,  was  excellent. 
Within  the  bosom  of  his  family  he  was  gentle  and  tender;  among 
his  friends  he  was  courteous,  generous  and  thoughtful  of  others 


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more  than  of  himself;  at  the  bar^  he  was  able,  conscientious  and 
candid;  on  the  bench,  he  was  learned,  patient  and  faithful. 
Seldom  had  such  fine  physical  manhood  been  united  with  such 
sterling  worth,  superior  ability  and  splendid  character.  He  filled 
many  places  of  public  trust,  and  all  with  credit  to  himself  and 
honor  to  the  State.  Called  eight  years  ago  to  the  highest  judi- 
cial station,  he  wore  the  ermine  with  great  dignity  and  accept- 
ability and  left  in  his  opinions  an  enduring  monument  to  his 
fame.  Among  his  chief  characteristics  were  a  rare  modesty,  a 
high  spirit  of  personal  independence,  a  manly  courage  and  in- 
flexible virtue.  His  disposition  was  kindly;  his  impulses  were 
chivalrous  and  noble,  and  his  sentiments  exalted; — candor  and 
truth  were  the  groundwork  of  his  nature."  (From  Memorial  in 
96  N.  C.  Reports,  p.  536). 

ISSUE:  (94)  John  Henry  King,  d.  y.  (95)  Sam,  m.  Mar- 
garet Devereux;  (96)  Eliza  Strudwick,  b.  1838,  m.  Mr.  Hines 
and  has  one  son.  (97)  Caroline;  (98)  Annie  Ruffin;  (99) 
Maria  Nash;  (100)  Josephine  Ashe  (sing). 

(31)  Witherspoon  Hasell  Burgwin,  son  of  No.  6,  was  born 
Sept.  20,  1818  at  Hillsboro.  In  1859  he  married  Nannie  Rob- 
inson, of  Charlotte  Co.,  Va.    Mr.  Burgwin  died  Oct.  8,  1894. 

ISSUE:  (101)  Mary,  m.  Mr.  Joscelyn;  (102)  Hill,  d.  at  16 
years  of  age;  (103)  J.  H.  K.  Burgwin,  now  living  at  Wades- 
boro,  N.  C. 

(32)  Ann  Maria  Burgwin,  dau.  of  No.  6,  was  b.  June  21, 
1821.  She  married  Parker  Quince,  son  of  Richard  Quince,  and 
a  grandson  of  Parker  Quince,  a  worthj^  merchant  of  Wilmington, 
who  became  famous  for  his  patriotic  and  humane  efforts  for  the 
relief  of  the  suffering  people  of  Boston,  whose  port  had  been 
closed  by  British  authority.  In  1774  he  furnished  his  ship  to 
carry  provisions  to  Boston,  free  of  freight. 

ISSUE:  (104)  Sara  Priscilla  Quince;  (105)  Geo.  B.  Quince 
d.  y. ;  (106)  Lizzie  Quince,  d.  y. 

(34)  NATHANIEL  HILL  BURGWIN,  son  of  No.  6,  was 
born  at  the  HERMITAGE,  Feb.  21,  1825,  and  died  Aug.  13, 
1898  at  HASEL  HILL.  From  his  earliest  years  he  was  gifted 
with  an  aptitude  for  acquiring  and  assimilating  knowledge 
which  was  nothing  short  of  marvellous.     He  commenced  his 


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preparation  for  college  at  the  age  of  eight  years  in  the  famous 
school  of  Wm.  J.  Bingham^  Hillsboro,  N.  and  at  an  early  age 
took  up  the  study  of  Latin.  Five  years  later  he  was  ready  to 
enter  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  but  this  event  was  post- 
poned because  of  his  extreme  youth,  until  1840,  when  he  entered 
and  was  admitted  to  the  sophomore  class.  The  highest  honors  of 
his  class  were  awarded  him,  but  he  was  unable  to  complete  the 
course  by  reason  of  his  ill  health.  When  he  attained  the  age  of 
seventeen  years  he  commenced  the  reading  of  law  in  the  office  of 
his  brother-in-law.  Judge  Thos.  S.  Ashe,  and  subsequently  with 
his  uncle,  Hon.  Frederick  Nash,  later  Chief  Justice  of  the  State. 
A  considerable  time  before  he  attained  his  majority,  Mr.  Burg- 
win  passed  the  examination  for  admission  to  the  bar,  but  was 
not  permitted  to  practise  until  he  was  21  years  of  age.  In 
1847  he  was  admitted  to  full  practice  in  the  superior  and  su- 
preme courts.  In  January  of  that  year,  he  opened  an  office  in 
Elizabeth  City,  where  he  was  actively  engaged  in  legal  practice 
until  1851,  when  he  removed  to  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and  practised 
until  his  retirement  in  1890,  at  which  time  he  was  capably  suc- 
ceeded by  his  two  sons,  George  and  Augustus.  Some  of  the 
most  important  cases  which  have  ever  been  tried  in  the  courts 
of  Allegheny  county  have  been  won  by  Mr.  Burgwin,  and  have 
formed  precedents  for  other  cases  of  a  similar  nature.  As  an 
instance  may  be  mentioned  the  case  of  the  County  of  Allegheny 
vs.  Pittsburgh  &  Connelsville  Railroad  Co.,  which  was  a  test 
suit  involving  $100,000,  and  determined  liabilities  of  more  than 
$1,000,000  for  the  defendant  company.  Mr.  Burgwin  repre- 
sented the  defendant  and  his  defense  was  sustained  by  the 
court.  Another  notable  case  was  that  of  Linton  and  wife  vs. 
J.  B.  Neal,  et  al.  This  was  a  suit  in  equity  brought  by  Mr. 
Burgwin,  in  the  U.  S.  Circuit  Court,  the  jurisdiction  of  that 
court  being  sustained  as  against  the  Orphan's  Court  of  the  State 
in  settling  all  the  accounts  of  the  executors,  guardians  and 
trustees  under  the  will  of  James  Brown,  of  Kittaning,  and  finally 
distributed  his  large  estate,  both  personal  and  real,  the  latter  ly- 
ing in  many  different  States  of  the  Union.  For  many  years 
Mr.  Burgwin  was  attorney  for  the  Mechanics  National  Bank  of 
Pittsburg  and  for  the  Pittsburg  Marine  National  Bank.  He 
was  solicitor  for  the  Dollar  Savings  Bank,  was  its  oldest  vice- 

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president_,  and  the  oldest  member  of  its  board  of  thirty-nine 
trustees.  For  many  years  he  served  as  director  of  the  Pitts- 
burgh and  Connelsville  R.  R.  Co. 

In  political  affairs^  Mr.  Burgwin  had  affiliated  with  the 
Whig  Party  in  his  younger  years^  but  from  Henry  Clay's  time, 
he  had  been  independent  in  his  political  views.  He  represented 
Ward  23  in  the  Select  Council  of  Pittsburgh  from  1869  to 
1875,  having  been  elected  on  the  Citizen's  Ticket.  While  holding 
this  office  he  was  appointed  chairman  of  a  committee  to  select 
the  site  for  a  city  park  and  the  present  site  of  Schenley  Park 
was  decided  upon.  For  a  time  this  project  had  to  be  set  aside 
as  the  terms  could  not  be  agreed  upon.  Mr.  Burgwin  was  an 
earnest  worker  in  the  interests  of  the  church  from  his  early 
years,  and  his  activity  continued  throughout  his  life.  He  affi- 
liated as  a  communicant  with  the  Episcopal  Church  and  in  1865 
it  was  owing  to  his  efforts  that  the  Pittsburgh  Diocese  was 
created.  The  division  of  the  Diocese  of  Pennsylvania  formed  a 
precedent  which  was  immediately  followed  elsewhere.  Mr. 
Burgwin  was  elected  to  represent  his  diocese  at  the  General  Con- 
vention in  Baltimore  in  1871,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death 
was  thus  honored.  He  never  abated  in  his  efforts  to  further 
this  good  cause,  was  an  active  debater  at  the  meetings,  and 
served  on  the  committee  on  canons  continuously  from  1871.  He 
was  a  member,  in  1880,  of  the  joint  committee  of  twenty-one 
bishops,  priests  and  laymen,  which  was  convened  for  the  pur- 
pose of  revising  the  book  of  common  prayer,  and  later  was  one 
of  the  twelve  appointed  to  form  a  committee  to  revise  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  General  Convention.  For  many  years  he  was 
consulted  on  questions  relating  to  Canon  Law,  by  clergymen  and 
laymen  alike,  and  he  was  influential  in  establishing  the  present 
church  legislation.  As  chancellor  of  the  Diocese  of  Pittsburgh, 
he  rendered  good  service  for  many  years,  and  was  a  fore- 
most figure  at  its  conventions. 

Of  Mr.  Burgwin  it  may  be  truly  said  that  he  was  as  devoted 
in  his  family  relations  as  he  was  sincere  in  his  friendships.  In 
professional  life  he  was  honest  and  generous,  in  private  life  he 
was  sympathetic  and  helpful.  In  both  phases  of  life  he  was 
actuated  by  the  highest  motives,  and  was  incapable  of  any  false 


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or  unjust  thought.  Vigilant  and  attentive  as  an  observer  of 
men  and  events,  his  opinions  carried  weight  and  were  of  wide- 
spread influence.  As  an  orator  he  had  few  equals.  His  lan- 
guage was  eloquent  and  glowing,  his  vocabulary  peculiarly  rich 
and  choice,  and  his  manner  of  delivery  never  failed  to  bring  the 
desired  result.  He  was  of  distinguished  appearance,  his  snowy 
hair,  moustache  and  whiskers  giving  him  a  patrician  and  some- 
what haughty  look,  which  was  tempered  by  the  kindly  expres- 
sion of  his  eyes.  The  glasses  which  covered  his  eyes  were  never 
able  to  conceal  the  genial  and  cordial  expression  which  they 
held  beneath  the  high,  intellectual  forehead. 

Mr.  Burgwin  married  (first)  Nov.  29,  1849,  Mary,  a  daughter 
of  Major  Asher  Phillips,  U.  S.  A.  She  was  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  the  chief  commander  of  the  English 
forces  in  Connaught,  Ireland,  during  the  reign  of  Eliza- 
beth, and  also  a  descendant  of  Sir  Richard  Ormsby,  Knight, 
who  was  the  owner  of  estates  in  Lincolnshire,  England.  One  of 
the  descendants  of  John  Ormsby,  great-grandfather  of  Mrs. 
Burgwin,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1720,  educated  at  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Dublin,  became  paymaster  in  the  Provincial  and  Colonial 
Armies  and  was  holding  that  position  at  the  time  of  the  capture 
of  Ft.  Duquesne.  His  son,  Oliver  Ormsby,  grandfather  of  Mrs. 
Burgwin,  was  a  large  land  owner  and  furnished  supplies  from  his 
furnace  and  forge  for  fitting  out  the  Perry  squadron  for  the 
Lake  Erie  expedition.  Mrs.  Burgwin  died  January  1,  1882. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  Home  in  Pittsburgh  and  a  highly  valued  worker  in  the 
parish.  Mr.  Burgwin  married  (second)  October  1,  1888,  Susan 
Read,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Henry  K.  Nash,  of  Hillsboro,  N.  C. ; 
grand-daughter  of  Chief- Justice  Frederick  Nash  and  a  great 
grand  daughter  of  Gov.  Abner  Nash. 

ISSUE:  (1st  marriage)  (107)  George  Collinson,  b.  Aug. 
17,  1851,  now  a  lawyer  of  434  Diamond  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
(108)  Henry  Phillips,  b.  Apl.  23,  1854;  (109)  John  Henry 
King,  b.  June  19,  1856;  (110)  Sarah  Ormsby,  b.  Sept.  3,  1859; 
(111)  Augustus  Phillips,  b.  Dec.  1,  1860;  (112)  Mary,  b.  Oct. 
21,  1862.  Issue  of  2nd.  marriage:  (113)  Kenneth  Ogden,  b. 
March  23,  1890. 


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FIFTH  GENERATION. 


(42)  Maria  Greenough  Burgwyn,  dau.  of  No.  9  and  grand- 
daughter of  No.  4,  was  born  Sept.  21,  1839  and  on  Oct.  2S, 
1868  was  married  to  T.  Roberts  Baker. 

ISSUE:     (41)  Harry  Burgwin  Baker. 

(43)  Harry  (Henry)  King  Burgwyn^  son  of  No.  9^,  was  b. 
Oct.  3f  1841.  In  1851  he  became  a  partial  course  student  at 
the  University  of  N.  C. ;  graduating  two  years  later  in  the  studies 
he  had  selected^  sharing  with  the  best  scholars  the  highest  honors 
of  his  classes.  His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  an 
academy  or  college  at  Bordenton^  N.  J.,  and  partly  at  West 
Point  where  he  was  a  student  of  Foster^  later  a  general  in  the 
United  States  Army.  His  father,  Henry  King  Burgwyn,  in 
1859,  fearing  the  difficulties  which  later  culminated  in  the 
War  between  the  States  and  desiring  his  son  be  prepared  for 
usefulness  in  every  emergency  placed  him  at  Virginia  Military 
Institute,  where  he  remained  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  war. 
"Early  in  the  Spring  of  1861  the  cadet  corps  having  been  order- 
ed to  Richmond,  Cadet  Burgwyn,  then  in  the  graduating  class, 
and  sharing  its  highest  honors  and  distinctions,  fulfilled  the 
duties  of  an  important  position  under  Gen.  Smith,  commandant 
of  Cadets,  until  he  deemed  it  his  duty  to  offer  his  services  to  the 
Governor  of  his  own  state.  The  following  letter  from  the  im- 
mortal "Stonewall"  Jackson  to  the  Confederate  Secretary  of 
War,  gives  that  great  general's  estimate  of  Cadet  Burgwyn: 

Lexington,  Va.,  April  16,  1861. 
Sir:  The  object  of  this  letter  is  to  recommend  Cadet  H.  K. 
Burgwyn,  of  N.  C,  for  a  commission  in  the  artillery  of  the 
Southern  Confederacy.  Mr.  B.  is  not  only  a  high-toned  South- 
ern gentleman,  but  in  consequence  of  the  highly  practical,  as 
well  as  scientific  character  of  his  mind,  he  possesses  qualities  well 
calculated  to  make  him  an  ornament  not  only  to  the  artillery, 
but  to  any  branch  of  the  military  service. 

T.  J.  Jackson. 
Prof.  Nat.  Phil,  and  Instr.  V.M.I. 
To  L.  P.  Walker,  Secretary  of  War." 

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In  July,  1861,  Gov.  Ellis,  of  N.  C,  made  Burgwyn,  not  yet 
21  years  of  age,  commandant  of  the  Camp  of  Instruction  at 
Crab  Tree,  three  miles  from  Raleigh,  where  the  26  Regt.  N.  C. 
S.  T.  was  moblized.  On  Aug.  27,  '61,  Major  Burgwyn  was 
elected  Lieut-Col.  of  the  regiment.  Lt.-Col.  Burgwyn  was  es- 
sentially a  worker  in  camp.  He  was  every  inch  a  solider  and  the 
martial  spirit  which  so  deeply  imbued  him  enthused  every  one 
around  him.  He  never  tired  and  was  unremitting  in  his  arduous 
labors.  Eight  hours  a  day  he  drilled  his  men  in  the  various 
schools  of  the  soldier  and  his  constant  endeavor  was  to  keep  his 
regiment  in  the  highest  state  of  efficiency  and  discipline.  No 
colonel  was  ever  more  careful  of  the  comfort  and  convenience 
of  his  men  and  though  unpopular  for  awhile  (before  he  had  been 
in  battle)  on  account  of  his  strict  discipline,  after  the  Battle  of 
Newbern  he  had  the  entire  confidence  of  his  men  and  was  their 
pride  and  love.  During  the  retreat  across  Bryce's  Creek  and 
while  the  Federals  were  closely  pursuing,  an  officer  fearing  Col. 
Burgwyn's  capture,  urged  him  to  get  into  the  boat  first.  He  was 
answered:  "/  will  never  cross  until  the  last  man  of  my  regiment 
is  over!"  Nor  did  he  'till  the  last  man  was  over.  At  the  reor- 
ganization of  the  regiment  for  the  war  he  received  practically  a 
unanimous  vote  for  Lt.-Col. 

Vance  was  elected  Governor  of  N.  C.  in  August,  1862,  thus 
leaving  a  vacancy  in  the  colonelcy  of  the  26th  Regiment.  Gen. 
Ransom  to  whose  brigade  the  regiment  was  attached,  opposed 
the  promotion  of  Lt.-Col.  Burgwyn  saying:  want  no  boy  col- 
onel in  my  brigade."  His  opposition  was  indignantly  resented 
by  the  regiment  and  application  was  made  and  granted  for  its 
transfer  to  some  other  brigade.  One  of  the  regiment  referring 
to  the  election  of  Vance  as  governor  and  mourning  his  consequent 
separation  from  them  says:  "But  in  the  promotion  of  Lt.-Col. 
Burgwyn  to  the  colonelcy  of  the  regiment,  we  have  gained  an 
officer,  young,  gallant  and  brave  and  eminently  fitted  to  fill  the 
vacancy."  This  same  writer,  speaking  of  the  transfer  of  the 
regiment  to  Pettigrew's  Brigade  writes:  "Never  was  there  a 
more  fortunate  change.  It  seemed  as  if  Pettigrew  and  Burgwyn 
were  made  for  each  other.  Alike  in  bravery,  alike  in  action, 
alike  in  their  military  bearing,  alike  in  readiness  for  battle  and 

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in  skillful  horsemanship^  they  were  beloved  alike  by  the  soldiers 
of  the  26th.  Each  served  as  a  pattern  for  the  other^  and  in 
imitating  each  other  they  reached  the  highest  excellence  possible 
of  attainment  in  every  trait  which  distinguishes  the  ideal  soldier." 

During  the  march  to  Gettysburg  some  of  the  men  of  his  regi- 
ment robbed  a  few  bee  hives  in  disobedience  of  orders  and  this 
being  made  known  to  Col.  Burgwyn  he  sought  the  farmer  and 
paid  them  for  it. 

In  describing  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  a  writer  states:  "As 
the  head  of  the  26th  Regiment  reaches  the  summit  of  the  hill 
beyond  the  bridge  crossing  Marsh  Creek,  the  enemy  opens  fire, 
sweeping  the  road  with  their  artillery.  There  is  some  little 
excitement,  but  it  soon  disappears  as  Col.  Burgwyn,  riding  along 
the  line  in  his  grandest  style,  commands  in  his  clear,  firm  voice, 
'Steady,  boys,  steady !'  " 

Surgeon  Geo.  C.  Underwood,  describing  the  heroic  charge  of 
the  26th  regiment  at  Gettysburg,  says:  "The  26th  was  the  ex- 
treme left  regiment  of  Pettigrew's  brigade.  It  directly  faced 
McPherson's  Woods  and  in  front  about  covered  the  width  of  the 
woods.  The  Iron  Brigade  occupied  these  woods  ^  *  ^  Directly 
in  our  front,  across  the  wheat  field  was  a  wooded  hill  (McPher- 
son's Woods).  On  this  hill  the  enemy  placed  what  we  were 
afterwards  informed  was  their  famous  'Iron  Brigade.'  They 
wore  tall,  bell  crowned  hats,  which  made  them  conspicuous  in  the 
line.  The  sun  was  now  high  in  the  heavens.  Gen.  Ewell's  corps 
had  come  up  on  our  left  and  had  engaged  the  enemy.  Never  was 
a  grander  sight  beheld.  The  line  extended  more  than  a  mile, 
all  distinctly  visible  to  us.  When  the  battle  waxed  hot,  now  one 
of  the  armies  would  be  driven,  now  the  other,  while  neither 
seemed  to  gain  any  advantage.  The  roar  of  artillery,  the  crack 
of  musketry,  and  the  shouts  of  the  combatants,  added  grandeur 
and  solemnity  to  the  scene.  Suddenly  there  came  down  the  line 
the  long  waited  command,  'Attention.'  The  time  of  this  com- 
mand could  not  have  been  more  inopportune,  for  our  line  had 
inspected  the  enemy  and  we  well  knew  the  desperateness  of  the 
charge  we  were  to  make,  but  with  the  greatest  quickness  the 
regiment  obeyed.  All  to  a  man  were  at  once  up  and  ready,  every 
officer  at  his  post,  Col.  Burgwyn  in  the  center. 

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"Col.  Burgwyn  fell  on  July  1,  1863  while  leading  this 
charge  of  his  regiment.  The  colors  of  the  regiment  had  been 
shot  down  ten  times  and  the  color  guard  all  killed  or  wounded, 
when  Capt.  McCreery,  seizing  the  flag,  waves  it  aloft  and  ad- 
vancing to  the  front  is  shot  through  the  heart  and  falls,  bathing 
the  flag  in  his  life's  blood.  Lt.  Geo.  Wilcox  now  rushes  forward, 
and  pulling  the  flag  from  under  the  dead  hero,  advances  with  it. 
A  moment  later  he  falls  with  two  wounds.  The  line  hesitates; 
the  crisis  is  reached — the  colors  must  advance.  Telling  Col.  Lane 
of  the  words  of  praise  ("Your  regiment  has  covered  itself  with 
glory  today")  just  heard  from  their  brigade  commander,  with 
orders  to  impart  it  to  the  men  for  their  encouragement.  Col. 
Burgwyn  seizes  the  flag  from  the  nerveless  grasp  of  the  gallant 
Wilcox,  and  advances,  giving  the  order:  "Dress  on  the  colors." 
Private  Hunnicutt,  Co.  'B*,  rushes  from  the  ranks  and  asks  the 
honor  to  advance  the  flag.  Turning  to  hand  the  colors  to  this 
brave  young  soldier.  Col.  Burgwyn  is  hit  by  a  ball  on  the  left 
side,  which,  passing  through  both  lungs,  the  force  of  it  turns 
him  around  and  falling,  he  is  caught  in  the  folds  of  the  flag  and 
carries  it  with  him  to  the  ground.  The  daring  Hunnicutt  sur- 
vives his  Colonel  but  a  moment  and  shot  through  the  head,  now 
for  the  13th  time  the  regimental  colors  are  in  the  dust.  Kneel- 
ing by  his  side  Lt.  Col.  Lane  stops  to  ask:  'My  dear  Colonel, 
are  you  severely  hurt?'  A  bowed  head  and  motion  to  the  left 
side  and  a  pressure  of  the  hand  is  the  only  response;  but  he 
looked  as  'pleasantly  as  if  victory  was  on  his  brow.'  As  the 
enemy  were  giving  away  and  retiring  Col.  Lane  at  the  head  of 
the  regiment  cheering  his  men  onward  and  waving  the  colors 
aloft  was  wounded — for  the  fourteenth  and  last  time  the  colors 
are  down."  Col.  Burgwyn  was  shot  bearing  the  colors  of  his 
regiment  and  fell  with  his  sword  in  his  hand,  cheering  his  men 
on  to  victory.  The  ball  passed  through  the  lower  part  of  both 
lungs  and  he  lived  about  two  hours.  Among  his  last  words  he 
asked  how  his  men  fought  and  said  they  would  never  disgrace 
him.  He  died  in  the  arms  of  Lt.  Young  after  bidding  all  fare- 
well and  sending  love  to  his  mother,  father  and  sisters  and 
l)rother.  His  last  words  were  ''Tell  the  General  my  men  never 
failed  me  at  a  single  point."    The  body  of  Col.  Burgwyn  was 

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buried  on  the  field  under  a  walnut  tree_5  a  gun  case  answering 
for  a  coffin.  In  the  spring  of  1867  his  remains  were  brought 
from  Gettysburg  and  re-interred  at  the  Soldiers'  Cemetery  in 
Raleigh  where  a  handsome  monument  erected  by  his  parents 
marks  the  grave. 

"Born  in  affluence,  nor  obliged  to  toil^  early  in  life  he  realized 
that  without  labor  nothing  was  worth  having.  And  what  he  did 
he  did  thoroughly.  He  loved  to  work  and  believed  by  so  doing 
he  was  best  serving  his  Maker.  Truthful  and  courageous,  high- 
toned  and  honorable,  honest  in  all  his  dealings,  courteous  and 
gentle,  he  was  universally  beloved  by  his  associates  at  school 
and  at  college.  In  appearance  he  was  the  very  embodiment  of 
manly  beauty.  Well  made,  symmetrical  in  figure,  without  super- 
fluous fiesh,  tall,  erect,  with  his  fine  head  well  poised  on  his 
shoulders,  he  was  in  every  respect  the  ideal  soldier. 

"In  his  daily  life  he  was  gentle  yet  sprightly,  fond  of  social 
amenities,  kind-hearted  and  ever  courteous  in  manner  and  bear- 
ing, he  was  inflexibly  stern  and  impartial  in  the  discharge  of 
duty.  In  his  intercourse  Avith  women  he  was  eminently  chival- 
ric  in  an  age  of  chivalric  men..  Xone  could  be  gentler,  more 
attentive,  more  courteous  than  he.  Xo  paladin  in  mediaeval  days 
bore  himself  with  more  knightly  grace.  He  constantly  sought 
the  company  of  the  gentler  sex,  believing  that  the  atmosphere  of 
a  refined  society  was  a  strong  safeguard  against  those  evils  which 
young  men  are  so  strongly  tempted  to  embrace.  He  had  none 
of  those  vices  so  common  to  young  men  of  that  or  this  day. 

"He  was  as  pure  in  mind  as  a  young  virgin.  His  filial  affec- 
tions were  beautiful  to  contemplate.  His  high  respect  and 
reverence  for  his  father,  and  deep  love  and  veneration  for  his 
mother  were  conspicuous  traits  in  his  character.  Their  slightest 
wish  was  a  law  unto  himself  which  he  obeyed  with  alacrity  and 
pleasure.  In  religious  matters  he  was  a  member  of  the  Protes- 
tant Episcopal  Church  and  showed  forth  his  religion  in  his 
daily  life.  His  was  in  all  respects  a  beautifully  rounded  char- 
acter."   (From  Address  of  John  B.  McRae.) 

(44)  William  Hyslop  Sumner  Burgwyn,  son  of  Xo.  9,  and 
his  wife  Ann  Greenough,  was  born  July  23,  1845,  at  the  home  of 
Gen.  W.  H.  Sumner,  near  Boston.    His  maternal  grand-mother 

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was  the  eldest  daughter  of  David  Stoddard  Greenough  (b.  March 
27,  1787,  d.  Aug.  6,  1830)  and  his  wife  Maria  Foster  Doane 
(b.  Jan.  2,  1793)  whom  Mr.  Greenough  married  June  14,  1813. 
Mr.  Burgwyn's  father  was  of  an  old  English  family  which  had 
lived  in  the  Cape  Fear  since  1730  and  on  both  sides  he  was  a 
lineal  descendant  of  Jonathan  Edwards. 

Mr.  Burgwyn  passed  his  early  youth  at  THORNBURY,  a 
plantation  owned  by  his  fother,  on  the  lower  Roanoke  in  North- 
ampton, Co.,  N.  C.  There  he  was  instructed  by  private  tutors 
and  later  attended  school  at  Chestnut  Hill,  Baltimore,  Md. 
From  there  he  went  to  Georgetown  College,  D.  C.  and  in  1860 
entered  the  University  of  North  Carolina  but  was  forced  to 
leave  this  latter  institution  in  1861  owing  to  illness.  That  same 
year  he  entered  as  a  cadet  at  the  Hillsboro  Military  Academy 
and  at  its  close  was  appointed  drill  master  at  the  Camp  of  In- 
struction near  Raleigh.  His  strict  attention  to  every  phase  of 
military  duty  and  his  fine  deportment  so  commended  him  to  his 
superior  officers  that  he  was  elected  a  lieutenant  in  "Co.  H." 
35th  N.  C.  At  the  battle  of  Sharpsburg  his  conduct  was  meri- 
torious and  he  received  the  especial  notice  and  commendation  of 
his  superiors  for  seizing  the  flag  and  rallying  the  regiment  at 
a  critical  period  of  the  battle.  He  participated  in  all  the  battles 
in  which  the  35th  N.  C.  engaged  and  was  later  promoted  to  the 
captaincy  of  his  company.  In  January,  1864,  he  was  assigned 
to  duty  as  Asst.  Adjt.  Gen.  on  the  staff  of  Brig.-Gen.  Clingman. 
Capt.  Burgwyn  was  badly  wounded  in  the  charge  at  Cold  Har- 
bor, May  31,  1864  and  at  the  battle  of  Fort  Harrison,  Sept.  29, 
1864,  was  captured  and  taken  to  Ft.  Delaware,  being  released 
in  the  Spring  of  1865.  After  the  close  of  the  War  he  again  en- 
tered the  University  of  N.  C.  and  three  years  later  graduated 
at  the  head  of  his  class.  In  1869  he  entered  the  Law  School  of 
Harvard  University  and  graduating  in  1870  began  the  practise 
of  law  in  Baltimore.  While  practising  law  here  he  compiled  a 
Digest  of  the  Opinions  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Appeals  of 
Maryland  a  work  which  elicited  the  hearty  commendation  of  his 
brethren  of  the  bar  as  well  as  the  judges  on  the  bench.  In  1880 
he  was  elected  colonel  of  the  5th  Maryland  Regiment. 


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WILLIAM  HYSLOP  SUMNER  BURGWYN 
(From  a  Photograph  in  1896) 


Always  attached  to  North  Carolina^  in  1882  he  moved  to 
Henderson  and  established  the  Bank  of  Henderson^  becoming 
its  first  president.  For  eleven  years  he  did  all  in  his  power  to 
promote  the  interests  of  his  adopted  home.  In  the  year  1893 
he  was  offered  and  accepted  the  position  of  National  Bank  Ex- 
aminer, having  as  his  territory  most  of  the  Southern  States.  At 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Spanish-American  War  he  was  appointed 
to  the  colonelcy  of  the  2nd  Regiment  North  Carolina  Volunteers 
by  Gov.  Russell  and  although  this  regiment  never  left  America  it 
was  admirably  prepared  for  active  service  and  it  has  been  stated 
that  no  finer  body  of  troops  was  ever  enlisted  in  North  Carolina. 

Col.  Burgwyn  moved  to  Weldon,  N.  C.  in  1901  and  established 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Weldon  and  became  its  president. 
He  also  established  the  First  National  Bank  at  Rocky  Mount, 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Roanoke  Rapids,  the  Bank  of  North- 
ampton at  Jackson,  the  Bank  of  Rich  Square,  the  Bank  of  Hali- 
fax and  the  Bank  of  Ayden. 

From  his  early  youth  Col.  Burgwyn  was  a  communicant  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  for  many  years  taught  in  the 
Sunday  Schools  of  the  various  parishes  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected. He  was  frequently  a  delegate  to  the  Diocesan  Conven- 
tion and  in  1886  and  1889  was  elected  one  of  the  lay  delegates 
to  represent  his  diocese  in  the  general  convention  of  the 
church. 

Col.  Burgwyn  was  selected  by  Chief  Justice  Walter  Clark  to 
prepare  sketches  in  the  Regimental  Histories  of  the  35th  N.  C. 
and  Clingman's  Brigade.  He  was  greatly  interested  in  the  wel- 
fare of  his  former  comrades  in  arms  and  was  a  prominent  figure 
at  all  their  reunions  and  all  of  his  Confederate  Addresses  prove 
an  intense  desire  on  his  part  to  establish  once  and  for  all  time 
the  heroic  part  taken  by  the  State  Troops  of  North  Carolina 
in  the  War  between  the  States. 

On  Nov.  21,  1876,  Col.  Burgwyn  married  Margaret  Carlisle, 
the  lovely  and  accomplished  daughter  of  the  late  James  and  Ann 
(Dent)  Dunlop,  of  Richmond,  Va.  For  more  than  thirty-five 
years  this  noble  woman  was  his  constant  companion  and  help- 
meet, sharing  in  his  joys  and  triumphs  and  sustaining  him  by 
her  sweet  Christian  fortitude  in  all  his  adversities  and  misfor- 


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tunes^  and  serving  at  all  times  to  make  his  home  bright,  cheerful 
and  hospitable. 

In  social  life  Col.  Burgwyn  was  the  soul  of  exquisite  courtesy, 
urbanity  and  gentleness  of  manner.  These,  and  his  never  fail- 
ing hospitality  and  his  magnificent  career  as  a  soldier  will  long 
be  remembered  by  those  whom  he  esteemed  and  loved.  As  was 
said  by  the  Raleigh  News  &  Observer,  Jan.  4,  1913:  "Through- 
out the  State  there  will  be  sincere  regret  at  the  news  of  the 
death  of  Col.  W.  H.  S.  Burgwyn,  of  Weldon,  one  of  a  family 
whose  record  has  added  lustre  to  the  name  and  fame  of  North 
Carolina. 

"Col.  Burgwyn  was  a  man  noted  for  his  courtliness  of  manner, 
and  for  the  warm  friendships  which  were  a  part  of  his  nature. 
His  record  is  that  of  one  of  the  State's  truest  and  best  sons, 
and  in  each  tribute  that  is  paid  him  it  will  be  said  that  he  was^ 
a  devoted  son  of  North  Carolina,  striving  for  the  best  for  its  in- 
terests. He  was,  in  very  truth,  a  gallant  gentleman  and  true. 
North  Carolina  is  the  better  for  his  living — the  loser  because  he 
has  been  called  away." 

In  the  early  morning  of  Jan.  3,  1913,  Col.  Burgwyn,  died  at 
the  home  of  his  nephew  in  Richmond,  Va.  The  body  was  taken 
to  Raleigh,  N.  C.  and  on  Sunday  evening,  January  fifth,  the 
funeral  was  held  from  Christ  Episcopal  Church  and  was  attend- 
ed by  a  large  concourse  of  sorrowing  friends  from  all  parts  of 
North  Carolina.  After  the  services  at  the  church  the  long  and 
sorrowing  procession  marched  to  the  Confederate  section  of  the 
Raleigh  Cemetery  and  there,  beside  the  remains  of  his  gallant 
brother  Col.  Harry  Burgwyn  who  was  killed  at  the  head  of 
his  regiment  at  Gettysburg,  all  that  was  mortal  of  North  Caro- 
lina's loved  son  was  laid  to  rest.  (Abridged  from  Sketch  by 
John  B.  McRae  in  Roanoke-Chowan  Times,  Feb.  13,  1913). 

(47)  George  Pollok  Burgwyn,  son  of  No.  9  and  the  grand- 
son of  No.  4,  was  born  May  19,  1847,  at  "Hillside  Plantation" 
on  the  Roanoke  River.  He  was  educated  at  the  school  of  Jas. 
Horner  at  Oxford,  N.  C.  and  afterwards  attended  George- 
town (D.  C.)  College.  In  1863  he  matriculated  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  his  native  state.  Remaining  there  but  a  short  time  he 
served  on  the  personal  staff  of  Gen.  Ransom.    On  account  of 

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his  extreme  youth  his  father  withdrew  him  from  the  army  and 
placed  him  at  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  at  Lexington  and 
in  the  Spring  of  1865  he  accompanied  the  corps  of  cadets  to 
Richmond  where  they  occupied  the  advance  lines  of  that  city 
until  its  evacuation.  In  1876  Mr.  Burgwyn  took  charge  of  his 
father's  large  planting  interests  on  Roanoke  River  and  he  soon 
became  one  of  the  largest  and  most  prosperous  planters  in  that 
section  of  the  State. 

On  May  27,  1869  Mr.  Burgwyn  married  Emma  Wright,  dau. 
of  the  late  Col.  Thos.  Ridley  of  Southampton  Co.,  Va.  Their 
home  at  the  "Hillside"  and  later  on  in  Jackson  was  the  seat  of 
that  generous  open-hearted  hospitality  that  always  characterized 
the  old  families  of  the  South.  Their  friends  were  met  at  the 
threshold  with  a  warm  welcome,  and  made  to  feel  thoroughly  at 
home.  Mrs.  Burgwyn  died  in  January,  1893  and  since  that 
time  Mr.  Burgwyn  had  resided  in  Jackson.  He  held  to  the 
principle  of  ethics  that  it  is  the  duty  of  every  good  citizen  to  take 
an  active  part  in  public  affairs,  and  throughout  his  life  he 
lived  up  to  this  principle.  In  his  private  life,  Mr.  Burgwyn 
was  a  dutiful  son,  a  loving  husband,  an  affectionate  father,  a 
good  neighbor,  and  a  warm  friend.  He  was  indeed  a  kind- 
hearted,  sympathetic  man,  and  ever  ready  to  respond  to  calls 
for  the  cause  of  charity.  He  was  a  true  and  kind  friend  to  the 
colored  people,  and  by  his  death  they  have  lost  one  of  their 
best  friends.     (From  Roanoke-Chowan  Times,  Feb.  14,  1907). 

ISSUE:  (115)  Ann  Greenough,  d.  y.;  (116)  Thomas  R.; 
(117)  Henry  King  Burgwyn  married  Page  Cawthorne;  issue, 
Frances  Page  Burgwyn  b.  1909.  (118)  George  Pollok;  (119) 
Maria  Greenough  and  (120)  W.  H.  S.  Burgwyn,  twins. 

(48)  John  Alveston  Burgwyn,  son  of  No.  9,  was  born  July 
5,  1850,  died  March  6,  1898,  at  the  age  of  forty-eight  years. 
"He  was  a  man  of  most  excellent  traits  of  character  and  was 
held  in  high  esteem  by  all  who  knew  him.  Mr.  Burgwyn  had  for 
more  than  seven  years  been  Treasurer  of  his  county  and  the 
faithfulness,  fidelity,  satisfaction  and  uniform  courtesy  with 
which  he  discharged  his  duties  is  attested  by  the  resolutions 
adopted  by  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Northampton:  'That 
the  discharge  of  his  duties  has  been  characterized  with  such 


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faithfulness,  such  absolute  accuracy  of  accounts,  such  promptness 
m  the  payment  of  county  obligations,  and  above  all  with  such 
politeness  and  kindness  to  every  one,  in  his  death  the  people  of 
Northampton  County,  without  regard  to  politics,  race,  craft  or 
condition  have  sustained  a  loss  which  it  will  be  difficult,  if  pos- 
sible, to  repair  or  replace.  He  was  a  consistent  member  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  and  a  lay  reader  in  the  Church  of  the  Saviour 
at  Jackson.  He  was  faithful  and  conscientious  in  all  the  affairs 
of  life,  and  the  immense  concourse  of  people  in  attendance  at 
his  burial  is  evidence  of  the  hold  he  had  upon  the  hearts  and 
affections  of  all  classes  of  the  people  of  Northampton  County.' 
(Henderson  Gold-Leaf,  March  17,  1898). 

(50)  Georgena  Rebecca  Moore,  dau.  of  No.  15  and  grand- 
daughter of  No.  5,  was  b.  at  Ft.  Johnston,  near  Smithville,  N.  C. 
Jan.  17,  1822.  On  Apl.  28,  1842,  at  Tuscaloosa,  Alabama,  she 
was  married  to  Joel  Riggs.  Mr.  Riggs  was  the  son  of  Zadock 
and  Ann  Fleming  Riggs  and  was  b.  Apl.  30,  1812.  After 
Georgena  Riggs'  death  at  Montgomery  on  Dec.  29,  1851,  Mr. 
Riggs  married  on  the  26th  of  June,  1862,  Elizabeth  Martha 
Jones.  He  died  in  October,  1886  without  issue  by  his  second 
marriage. 

ISSUE:  (1st)  marriage,  (121)  William  Crutcher,  b.  Dec. 
25,  1842,  d.  March  26,  1849;  (122)  Eliza  Moore;  (123)  James 
b.  May  28,  1845,  d.  May  28,  1846;  (124)  Junius  Alexander, 
b.  March  24,  1847,  d.  Dec.  5,  1849;  (125)  Ann  Fleming,  and 
(126)  Junius  Moore  Riggs. 

(51)  Caroline  Sophia  Moore,  dau.  of  Junius  Alexander  and 
Eliza  Clitherall  Moore,  and  a  grand-daughter  of  Dr.  George 
Campbell  and  Caroline  Burgwyn  Clitherall,  was  born  at  Smith- 
ville, N.  C.  May  8,  1824.  On  April  10,  1844,  at  the  home  of 
her  uncle  Mr.  Samuel  Strudwick,  of  Areola,  Alabama,  she  was 
married  to  Dr.  Marshall  Henry  Bird,  a  son  of  General  Bird  of 
North  Carolina  who  during  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain 
commanded  a  regiment  of  troops  raised  from  Hillsboro,  N.  C. 
and  the  adjoining  back  country.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  man 
of  giant  strength  and  the  physical  superior  of  any  of  his  neigh- 
bors for  miles  around.  Dr.  Bird  practiced  his  profession  suc- 
cessfully.   His  amiable  disposition,  courtly  bearing  and  polished 

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manners  endeared  him  to  all  and  he  was  loved  by  both  whites 
and  blacks  for  his  generous  and  sacrificing  nature.  He  was  the 
happiest  when  serving  his  fellow-men  and  alleviating  their  wants 
and  sufferings.  He  was  a  devoted  husband,  a  tender  and  gen- 
erous father  and  his  untimely  death,  March  17,  1851,  was  sin- 
cerely lamented  by  all  who  had  come  to  know  and  love  the  gentle 
and  kind  young  physician.  Mrs.  Bird  lived  over  a  half  century 
after  her  husband's  death.  Exemplary  as  a  wife,  tender  and 
affectionate  as  a  mother,  warmly  sincere  as  a  friend,  a  con- 
sistent Chirstian,  full  of  gentle  sympathies  and  abounding 
charity,  she  filled  the  home  of  her  daughter  with  all  the  light, 
life  and  love,  whichever  bless  the  presence  of  a  true  and  virt- 
uous woman.  The  last  twenty-five  years  of  her  life  were  spent 
in  Montgomery,  Ala.,  at  the  home  of  her  daughter,  Gena,  Mrs. 
Thos.  Goode  Jones,  and  here  on  January  9th,  1903,  surrounded 
by  her  children  and  grandchildren,  to  whom  she  had  so  gener- 
ously dedicated  her  life,  her  sweet  and  pure  soul  winged  its 
flight  to  greet  him  who  fifty  years  before  had  passed  from  the 
sight  of  men.. 

ISSUE:  (127)  Georgena;  (128)  Martha  Sophia,  b.  Oct. 
17,  1848  d.  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  July  12,  1813  (single). 

(55)  Elizabeth  Forbes  Burgwyn  Clitherall,  dau.  of  No.  20, 
was  born  July  29,  1838  and  was  married  on  Sept.  1,  1863  to 
Dr.  Alexander  Powe  Hall.    She  died  Sept.  25,  1872. 

ISSUE:    (129)  Hattie  Clitherall  Hall. 

(56)  Annie  E.  Battle,  dau.  of  No.  21,  and  grand-daughter  of 
No.  5,  married  John  Scott  in  1854  and  had  issue  (130)  Annie, 
b.  March  4,  1859. 

(63)  George  C.  Jones,  son  of  No.  22  and  grandson  of  No. 
5,  was  born  in  1838.  He  married  Octavia  Owen  and  died  in 
1866,  without  issue,  from  wounds  received  at  the  Battle  of 
Chicamauga. 

(64)  Eliza  Clitherall  Jones,  dau.  of  No.  22  was  b.  in  1840. 
She  married  Captain  Lewis  Neill  Huck,  C.  S.  A.  and  is  now  liv- 
ing at  Spring  Hill,  near  Mobile,  Alabama. 

(65)  Harvey  Ellis  Jones,  son  of  No.  22  and  grandson  of 
No.  5,  was  b.  at  Tuscoloosa,  Alabama,  on  April  28,  1842.  He 
obtained  his  education  in  the  private  schools  of  ^lobile,  taking 

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College  Courses  at  St.  James  College,  Maryland,  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Alabama,  1858-9,  but  he  was  not  graduated.  He  was 
for  a  while  engaged  as  a  clerk  and  also  as  a  school  teacher.  He 
entered  the  Confederate  Army  on  Apl.  28,  1861,  as  2nd  Ser- 
geant of  "Co.  E.",  Third  Ala.  Regt.  He  rose  to  be  lieutenant 
in  the  same  company,  and  captain  and  assistant  adjutant  general 
of  General  Grade's  Alabama  Brigade  and  at  the  Battle  of 
White  Oak  Road  in  Va.  he  lost  his  right  leg  on  March  31,  1865. 
Harvey  E.  Jones  was  assistant  adjutant  general  of  the  Ala- 
bama National  Guard,  1894-96.  He  was  recording  secretary  to 
Gov.  Thos.  G.  Jones,  1890-94  and  private  secretary  to  Gov. 
Wm.  C.  Gates,  1894-5.  He  was  associate  Railroad  Commis- 
sioner of  Alabama  from  1895  to  1899.  In  1901  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  Gov.  Wm.  J.  Samford  as  State  Tax  Commissioner. 
Col.  Jones  is  a  gentleman  of  most  pleasing  manners,  bearing  the 
unmistakable  air  of  the  cultured  Southerner,  and  showing  in 
modest  reserve  the  genuine  temperament  of  the  brave  Confed- 
erate soldier.  A  single  instance  will  indicate  his  kindliness  of 
heart  and  his  thoughtful  courtesy.  During  the  Confederate  Re- 
Union  in  Montgomery,  in  1902,  an  old  solider,  dressed  in  the 
Confederate  uniform,  was  given  an  opportunity  to  speak  from  the 
rostrum.  The  old  hero  became  so  warmed  in  his  subject  that  he 
spoke  far  beyond  his  allotted  time,  and  the  chairman  called  him 
down.  Under  some  embarrassment  he  took  his  seat  and  the  vast 
audience  broke  into  laughter.  Col.  Jones  immediately  arose, 
walked  to  the  old  soldier,  congratulated  him  and  removed  his 
embarrassment.  In  all  the  relations  of  life  Col.  Jones  measures 
to  the  full  appreciation  of  his  countrymen.  (From  Notable  men 
of  Alabama,  Vol.  I,  p.  213).  Col.  Jones  served  as  State  Tax 
Commissioner,  having  been  reappointed  by  Acting  Governor 
Cunningham,  until  early  in  1907  when  that  office  was  abolished. 
He  was  then  appointed  by  Gov.  B.  B.  Comer  a  member  of  the 
State  Tax  Commission,  serving  until  about  March,  1911.  Since 
the  formation  of  the  Alabama  Division,  United  Confederate 
Veterans,  in  1893,  Col.  Jones  has  served  as  Adjutant  and  Chief 
of  Staff  to  the  Commander,  and  in  October,  1912,  he  was  elected 
Major  General  and  is  now  in  command  of  the  Alabama  Division 
U.  C.  V.    Col.  Jones  also  served  as  an  alderman  of  the  Town  of 


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Capitol  Heights  from  1910  to  1912  and  on  April  1^  1911  he  was 
appointed  by  Judge  Thos.  G.  Jones_,  Clerk  of  the  United  States 
District  Court  for  the  Middle  District  of  Alabama^  which  posi- 
tion he  now  fills. 

On  Nov,  24),  1869,  at  Spring  Hill,  Ala.,  Col.  Jones  married 
Marion  Wilmer,  daughter  of  Richard  Hooker  Wilmer,  Second 
Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Alabama,  and  one 
of  the  most  beloved  citizens  of  the  State.  Bishop  Wilmer  was 
b.  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  March  15,  1816,  and  was  the  son  of  Wil- 
liam Holland  Wilmer,  who  was  b.  in  Maryland,  Oct.  29,  1782, 
the  latter  being  one  of  three  brothers  all  of  whom  entered  the 
ministry  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  Rev.  W.  H. 
Wilmer  married  Marion  Hannax  Cox,  of  New  Jersey.  Bishop 
Wilmer,  on  Oct.  6,  1840,  married  Margaret  Brown,  of  "Bel- 
mont," Nelson  County,  Va.,  youngest  daughter  of  Gen.  Alex- 
ander Brown  and  his  wife  Lucy  Shandon  Rives  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Robt.  Rives  and  his  wife  Margaret  J.  Cabell.  Bis- 
hop Wilmer  died  at  Mobile,  Ala.,  June  14,  1900  and  is  buried 
there. 

Mrs.  Marion  Wilmer  Jones,  is  thus  descended  from  King 
Robert  Bruce  of  Scotland  through  her  maternal  grandfather,  and 
through  her  maternal  grandmother  from  Lt.-Col.  William  Ca- 
bell, High  Sheriff  of  the  Colony  of  Virginia  and  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Burgesses.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  Order  of  the  Crown,  the  Colonial  Dames,  the  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution  and  the  United  Daughters  of  the  Con- 
federacy, in  the  labors  of  all  of  which  societies  she  has  taken 
an  honored  and  useful  part.  It  was  mainly  through  her  efforts 
that  the  State  of  Alabama  purchased  the  site  of  Old  Fort  Tou- 
louse and  that  the  Colonial  Dames  of  Alabama  erected  there  a 
handsome  monument. 

ISSUE:  (131)  Richard  Wilmer;  (132)  Madeline  ClitheraU; 
(133)  Harvey  Ellis,  Jr.;  (134)  George  Hurxthal;  (135)  Wil- 
liam Fitzhugh;  (136)  Alexander  Burgwyn,  b.  Nov.  21,  1882  d. 
1912;  (136)  John  Stewart. 

(67)  Netta  Battle,  dau.  of  No.  22,  and  her  2nd  husband, 
J.  A.  M.  Battle,  was  b.  Dec.  24,  1853,  and  was  married  at 
Winchester,  Va.  on  Nov.  30,  1878  to  Phillip  William  Fauntleroy, 

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b.  Jan.  9^  1852,  the  son  of  Thos.  Turner  and  Ann  Williams 
Fauntleroy.    Residence:  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

ISSUE:  (138)  Frank  Battle,  b.  June  25,  1880;  (139)  Made- 
leine Clitherall,  b.  July  19,  1882;  (140)  Netta  Battle,  b.  Apl. 
27,  1884;  (141)  Zide  Louise,  b.  Feb.  26,  1887;  (142)  Thomas 
Turner,  b.  Dec.  15,  1890;  (143)  Phillip  William,  Jr.,  b.  Jan. 
19,  1897. 

(69)  John  Scott  Battle,  son  of  No.  22  and  J.  A.  M.  Battle, 
was  b.  June  1,  1859.  On  April  18,  1889,  he  married  Zoe  Fari- 
bault. 

ISSUE:    (144)  Richard  Faribault  Battle,  b.  March  18,  1900, 

(70)  Walter  Granden  Battle,  son  of  No.  22  and  J.  A.  M. 
Battle,  was  b.  at  Tuskegee,  Alabama,  Jan.  17,  1864.  He  was 
married  Sept.  17,  1890  to  Lutie  Kimball,  dau.  of  George  W.  and 
Helen  R.  Kimball.  Mr.  Battle  lives  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  for 
the  past  seventeen  years  he  has  been  connected  with  the  James 
Clark  Leather  Co.,  of  which  company  he  is  now  Sec.  and  Treas. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  of  St.  Peter's  Epis- 
copal Church  and  in  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 

ISSUE:  (145)  George  Kimball,  b.  July  24,  1896;  (146) 
Helen  Kimball,  b.  Aug.  22,  1899. 

(76)  Minnie  Clitherall,  dau.  of  No.  23,  was  born  Jan.  23, 
1853.  She  married  Frank  Gilmer  Taylor  and  is  now  living  at 
Montgomery,  Alabama. 

ISSUE:  (147)  J.  Hunt  Taylor  m.  Grace  Morgan,  and  has 
two  children;  (148)  Clitherall  Taylor;  (149)  Willie  John 
Taylor. 

(77)  Mattie  Clitherall,  dau.  of  No.  23,  was  b.  Feb.  13, 
1855  and  was  married  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  on  the  eighth 
of  January,  1873  to  William  Edward  Ellsberry,  who  was  b. 
Jan.  5,  1852,  and  is  the  son  of  Jas.  H.  and  Francis  Gleeson 
Ellsberry.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ellsberry  live  near  Montgomery,  on 
the  Woodley  Road,  where  they  have  a  splendid  farm. 

ISSUE:  (150)  Kate;  (151)  Bessie;  (152)  Clitherall;  (153) 
Arthur  Davis,  b.  Apl.  17,  1887  an  electrical  engineer  and  grad- 
uate of  the  Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Alpha  Tau  Omega  Fraternity  and  lives  at  Charleston,  W. 
Va.     (154)  William  Edward,  Jr.,  b.  Nov.  3,  1889,  a  graduate 

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of  the  Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute^  a  successful  planter^  mem- 
ber of  the  A.  T.  O.  fraternity. 

(78)  Allie  Burgwyn  Clitherallj  dau.  of  Alexr.  B.  and  Kate 
Hayes  Clitherall^  was  b.  at  Carrollton^  Pickens  Co.,  Alabama, 
Aug.  16,  1858.  She  was  married  at  Montgomery  on  March  30, 
1875  to  George  Anthony  Birch,  son  of  Edmund  and  Margaret 
Douglas  Birch.  He  was  born  at  Talbatton,  Ga.,  and  died  at 
Montgomery,  Alabama,  Apl.  11,  1897. 

ISSUE:  (155)  Edmund  Pendleton,  d.  y.  (156)  Alexander 
Clitherall;  (157)  Kate  Clitherall. 

(80)  George  Burgwyn  Anderson.  (From  the  sketch  by 
Major  Seaton  Gales,  in  the  September,  1875,  issue  of  "Our  Liv- 
ing and  Our  Dead.")  "An  unsullied  honor,  a  record  that  shall  be 
immortal,  and  a  grateful  and  affectionate  remembrance  of  her 
martyred  sons,  are  much  that  are  left  to  the  South  from  the 
wreck  of  the  great  Civil  War.  That  honor,  no  prejudice  or  ma- 
lignity can  successfully  assail  or  ever  tarnish.  That  record  of 
heroism  and  devotion  shall  grow  in  lustre  as  the  years  advance, 
and  be  the  theme  of  song  and  story  in  years  that  are  yet  to  come. 
And  that  love  and  veneration  for  the  noble  dead  will  live  and 
intensify  until  the  present  generation  sleeps  in  the  dust,  and  then 
our  children  and  our  children's  children 

Shall  revive  their  names,  and  in  fond  memories 
Preserve  and  still  keep  fresh,  like  flowers  in  water, 
Their  glorious  deeds. 

"Lavish  as  have  been  her  offerings.  North  Carolina  has  rarely 
made  a  richer  contribution  to  fame  and  history,  than  when  George 
Burgwyn  Anderson  left  them  the  legacy  of  his  bright  young 
name  and  example.  It  shall  be  the  object  of  this  imperfect 
sketch  to  tell  his  services  and  to  commemorate  a  life  that  was  as 
admirable  while  it  lasted,  as  it  was  glorious  in  its  conclusion. 
George  Burgwyn  Anderson  was  born  in  Orange  County,  within 
one  mile  of  Hillsboro,  on  the  12th  day  of  April,  1831.  His 
father  was  William  E.  Anderson,  a  brother  of  Chief  Justice 
Walker  Anderson  of  Florida,  and  best  known  as  the  faithful  and 
intelligent  cashier  for  many  years  of  the  Branch  Bank  of  the 


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,( 

State  at  Wilmington.     His  mother^  Eliza,  (No.  24)  was  the  | 

daughter  of  George  Burgwyn  (No.  6)  of  the  HERMITAGE  in  ! 

New  Hanover — the  head  of  a  family  graced  by  all  the  qualities  I 

which  adorn  society.     As  a  boy  he  was     remarkable  for  the  ] 

brightness  of  his  intellect,  his  amiable  and  cheerful  disposition —  j 

manly  deportment  and  studious  habits — the  same  qualities  which  ] 

in  after  life,  characterized  him  in  so  remarkable  a  degree.    He  ] 

matriculated  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina  in  1847,  joining  ^ 

the  sophomore  class  of  that  year.    He  entered  West  Point  Mil-  j 

itary  Academy  in  1848  and  graduated  in  1852,  ninth  in  his  class.  ! 

In  1857  he  became  adjutant  of  the  Second  Regiment  of  Dra-  ; 

goons,  U.  S.  A.    On  the  8th  of  November,  1859  he  was  married  I 

to  Miss  Mildred  Ewing.    The  following  Spring  Capt.  Burgwyn  i 

received  the  recruiting  detail  and  was  stationed  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  j 

until  1861,  when  he  resigned  his  commission  in  the  United  States  j 

Army  and  hastened  to  North  Carolina  to  link  his  fortunes  with  ] 
those  of  his  native  State.    He  was  the  first  officer  of  the  old 

army,  then  in  service,  who  proff erred  his  sword  and  his  life  to  \ 
North  Carolina.    True  to  the  patriotic  and  filial  instincts  of  his 

great  heart  he  rushed  to  the  defense  of  the  dear  land  of  his  na-  ] 
tivity  and  affections.    Arriving  in  Raleigh,    he    was  commis- 
sioned by  Gov.  Ellis  as  Colonel  of  the  Fourth  Regiment,  N.  C. 

S.  T.  on  the  18th  of  May,  1861.    At  the  Battle  of  Seven  Pines,  j 

May  31,  1862,  in  the  absence  of  Gen.  Featherston,  he  command-  ' 

ed  the  brigade,  which  consisted  of  the  49th,  Va.,  27  and  28th  j 

Ga.  and  the  4th  N,  C.  The  latter  carried  into  action  520  men;  i 
86  were  killed  and  376  wounded.    Of  the  27  officers  on  duty, 

24  were  either  killed  or  wounded.     Col.  Anderson  behaved  so  ' 
gallantly  that  he  was  commissioned  a  Brigadier  General  on  the 
9th  of  June,  1862.    The  brigade  assigned  to  him  was  composed 

of  the  2nd,  4th,  14th  and  20th  Regts.  N.  C.  S.  Troops.    At  , 

Sharpsburg,  while  directing  his  men  Gen.  Anderson  was  wound-  I 

ed.    During  an  assault  of  the  enemy,  in  which  a  large  part  of  i 

Hill's  Division  fell  back  through  a  mistake  in  conveying  orders,  | 

Gen.  Anderson  and  his  men  nobly  held  their  line,  until  he  was  j 

struck  by  a  ball  in  the  foot  near  the  ankle,  which  brought  him  ■] 

to  the  ground.    It  was  a  most  painful  injury,  and  he  suffered  j 

great  agony  in  being  carried  to  Richmond  and  thence  to  Raleigh,  : 

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where  finally  an  amputation  was  made.  He  sank  under  the 
operation  and  died  on  the  morning  of  October  16,  1862.  Gen. 
Anderson  was  buried  in  the  City  Cemetery.  The  funeral  was 
one  of  the  most  imposing  ever  witnessed  in  Raleigh.  The  old 
flag  which  waved  above  him  at  Seven  Pines,  was  borne  on  its 
shattered  staff  in  the  cortege,  and  attached  to  the  saddle  on  his 
horse,  was  the  sword  which  he  wore  when  he  received  the  fatal 
wound.  This  sword  was  once  the  property  of  his  gallant  uncle, 
Capt.  J.  H.  K.  Burgwyn,  and  was  on  his  person  when  he  fell 
bravely  fighting  at  the  battle  of  Pueblo  de  Taos,  in  Mexico.  Had 
he  been  spared  he  would  undoubtedly  have  attained  the  highest 
distinction.  But  a  death  in  defense  of  honor  and  country  is 
equal  to  a  lifetime  of  glory,  and  when  North  Carolina  makes  up 
her  roll  of  honor — as  she  must  and  will  do  when  calmer  times 
supervene — full  justice  will  be  done  to  his  memory.  Surveying 
in  mournful  and  grateful  retrospect,  the  long  catalogue  of  dead 
heroes  who  have  illustrated  her  name  in  history,  she  will  dwell 
with  peculiar  pride  upon  the  life  and  services  of  George  Burg- 
wyn Anderson." 

(97)  Caroline  Burgwyn  Ashe,  dau.  of  No.  28  and  Thos. 
S.  Ashe,  married  James  Alexander  Lockhart  and  died  in  1904. 

ISSUE:  (158)  Margaret  Ashe  m.  H.  H.  McLendon,  a  lawyer 
and  had  issue  Caroline  Ashe  McLendon;  (159)  Geo.  Burgwyn 
m.  Rosa  Bland  and  has  issue,  two  sons:  George  and  Trez- 
evant;  (160)  James  Alexander  Lockhart;  (161)  Sebor  Smedes. 
postmaster  at  Wadesboro,  N.  C.  (162)  Ashe  Lockhart;  (163) 
Caroline  Burgwyn  Lockhart. 

(98)  Annie  Ruffin  Ashe,  dau.  of  No.  28  and  Judge  Thos. 
S.  Ashe,  married,  Nov.  28,  1860,  Richard  Henry  Battle,  a  pro- 
minent lawyer  and  son  of  William  Horn  Battle,  LL.  D.  and 
his  wife  Lucy  Martin  Plummer.  Mr.  R.  H.  Battle  is  a  brother 
of  Kemp.  Battle,  of  the  Faculty  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina.    Mrs.  Annie  Ashe  Battle  died  in  July,  1883. 

ISSUE  SURVIVING:  (164)  Louis  J.  Battle,  M.  D.,  b. 
1865,  m.  Ida  Polkingham  and  has  issue:  (a)  Mary,  (b)  Richard, 
(c)  Mildred;  (165)  Edmund  Strudwick,  b.  1872,  m.  Delia  Clark 
and  has  issue:  (a)  Annie  Ashe  and  (b)  Richard  Henry;  (166) 
Caroline  Burgwyn  Battle,  m.  William  Still  of  Charlotte  and 


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has  issue:  (a)  Richard  Battle  Still;  (167)  Rosa  Battle,  m. 
Dr.  Robert  Miller  and  has  issue:  (a)  Annie  B.  Miller. 

(99)  Maria  Nash  Ashe,  daughter  of  Thomas  Samuel  and 
Caroline  Burgwyn  Ashe  and  grand-daughter  of  George  Wil- 
liam Bush  Burgwyn,  married  in  November,  1866,  James  C. 
Marshall.  Mr.  Marshall  attained  his  majority,  received  his 
diploma  at  Chapel  Hill  and  entered  the  Confederate  Army  on 
the  same  day — June  4,  1861.  He  saw  active  service  in  Virginia 
and  soon  after  going  in  was  made  adjutant  of  the  14th  N.  C. 
Troops,  participating  in  most  of  the  big  battles  in  Northern 
Virginia  and  the  early  ones  in  Maryland.  Mr.  Marshall  was 
taken  prisoner  at  Fisher's  Hill  in  the  fall  of  1864.  He  now 
lives  at  Wadesboro,  N.  C.  Mrs.  Marshall  takes  great  interest 
in  all  that  concerns  the  welfare  of  her  family  and  community 
and  is  esteetned  and  loved  by  all  who  know  her.  She  is  a  devoted 
and  affectionate  wife  and  a  generous  and  sacrificing  mother. 
Mrs.  Marshall  is  deeply  interested  in  family  history  and  genea- 
logy and  her  patient  and  generous  responses  to  the  many  letters 
of  the  writer  of  this  volume  have  done  much  towards  making  it 
complete  and  some  of  the  most  interesting  and  valuable  facts 
herein  have  been  supplied  by  her  and  the  use  of  books  kindly 
loaned  by  her. 

ISSUE:  (168)  Thomas  Ashe  Marshall,  m.  Mirta  Monsal- 
ratge;  (169)  William  Lockhart  Marshall,  m.  Rosalie  Monsal- 
ratge  and  has  issue:  Wm.  L.  Marshall  Jr.;  (170)  Maria  Nash 
Marshall,  b.  Jan.  6,  187S,  d.  Dec.  12,  1895;  (171)  Ethel 
Marshall,  m.  June,  1904,  H.  I.  DePass  and  has  issue:  (a) 
Flora  Mitchell,  (b)  Maria  Ashe,  (c)  Lily,  (d)  Ethel. 

(104)  Sarah  Parker  Quince,  dau.  of  No. '32,  was  b.  June  6 
1823.  She  married  Capt.  John  Maffitt  and  had  issue:  (172) 
Florrie  Maffit  who  m.  Mr.  Armstrong  and  has  three  children 

(173)  Maria  B.  Maffit,  m.  John  J.  Parker  and  has  one  child 

(174)  Sara  Maffit,  (sing.) 

(114)  Harry  Burgwyn  Baker,  son  of  No.  42,  and  T.  Robert; 
Baker,  m.  Jeanette  Long. 

ISSUE:    (175)  J.  A.  B.  Baker,  b.  1912. 

(118)  George  Pollok  Burgwyn,  son  of  (47)  George  Polloi 
and  Emma  Ridley  Burgwyn,  was  born  at  "Hillside  Plantation'  . 

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GEORGE  POLLOK  BURGW^N 


Xorthampton  Countr.  X.  July  10.  1878.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  local  schools,  of  his  county  and  later 
studied  under  the  Rev.  B.  S.  Bronson  at  Warrenton.  In  1891-3 
he  attended  the  school  of  the  Va.  Mechanics  Institute^ 
(Richmond)  and  in  1896  attended  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  at  which  institution  he  was  initiated  into  Zeta  Psi  Fra- 
ternity. 

On  Feb.  10.  1904.  Mr.  Burgwyn  married  Emily  Bartlett, 
(b.  Dec.  31,  1880)  dau.  of  Mr.  Bartlett  Roper,  of  Petersburg, 
Va.    Of  this  union  three  children  were  born. 

An  Episcopalian  by  birth  and  inclination,  Mr.  Burgwyn  early 
identified  himself  with  that  church.  His  high  character  and 
faithful  observance  of  all  the  duties  which  mark  the  Christian 
gentleman,  united  with  his  loyal  devotion  to  the  church  of  his 
ancestors,  have  won  for  him  the  love  and  esteem  of  his  fellow 
churchmen  and  since  1907  he  has  served  as  a  vestryman  in  the 
Church  of  the  Saviour  at  Jackson  and  for  the  past  two  years 
has  been  a  lay  reader. 

IMr.  Burgwyn  for  the  past  four  years  has  held  the  position 
of  Secretary  of  King  Solomon  Lodge  Xo.  56  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 
In  1909,  1910  and  1913  he  was  a  member  of  the  Town  Com- 
missioners of  his  native  city,  efficiently  and  faithfully  perform- 
ing the  duties  of  this  office  to  the  satisfaction  of  all.  ^.lodest 
and  unassuming  in  manner;  refined  in  taste,  courteous  and 
frank  in  his  bearing;  cheerful  and  amiable  in  his  disposition,  he 
is  greatly  respected  by  all  who  know  him.  The  kindness  of 
his  heart,  his  large-hearted  liberality  and  disinterested  devotion 
to  his  fellowmen  steal  allegiance  from  every  heart  and  com- 
mand the  devoted  attachment  of  all  who  are  fortunate  enough 
to  be  within  the  circle  of  his  personal  acquaintanceship. 

ISSUE:  (175)  Emily  Roper  Burgwyn,  b.  Jan.  10.  1905; 
(176)  George  PoUok  Burgwyn,  Jr.,  b.  July  3,  1906;  (177) 
Bartlett  Roper  Burgwyn,  b.  May  29,  1909. 

(119)  Maria  Greenough  Burgwyn,  dau.  of  Xo.  47,  married  in 
1910  Dr.  W.  T.  M.  Long  and  has  issue:  (178)  Bettie  Gray 
Long,  b.  1912. 

(120)  W.  H.  S.  Burgwyn,  son  of  Xo.  47.  was  b.  in  1886 
and  married  Josephine  Griffin. 

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(122)  Eliza  Moore  Riggs,  dau.  of  No.  50  and  Joel  Riggs, 
was  b.  July  17,  1844.  At  Selma,  Ala.,  Aug.  SO,  1864,  she  was 
married  to  B.  J.  Tarver. 

ISSUE:     (179)  Carrie  Bird  Tarver. 

(125)  Ann  Fleming  Riggs,  dau.  of  No.  50  and  Joel  Riggs, 
and  a  grand-daughter  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Inglis  Moore,  was  born 
at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  April  3,  1849.  On  April  12,  1871 
she  was  married  to  Edward  Pegram  Gait,  who  was  b.  at  Nor- 
folk, Va.,  Oct.  5,  1847.  His  parents  were  Alexander  and  Mary 
Raincock  Gait.  They  were  both  descended  from  early  and  dis- 
tinguished families  of  Virginia.  The  Gait  family  is  of  Scotch 
origin,  and  the  Raincock  family  of  English.  Alexr.  Gait  was 
in  the  drug  business  at  Norfolk  for  many  years  and  died  there  in 
1855  at  the  age  of  sixty-three.  E.  P.  Gait  was  educated  at 
Norfolk  until  the  commencement  of  the  War  between  the  States, 
which  turned  the  current  of  his  life.  He  entered  the  Confederate 
Army  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  in  1864,  serving  in  the  Harris 
Home  hospital  as  an  apothecary  until  the  close  of  the  war.  After 
the  War  he  resumed  the  drug  business  at  Norfolk,  remaining 
there  until  September,  1866,  when  he  came  to  Selma,  Ala.,  and 
clerked  in  a  drug  store  until  1878,  when  he  established  himself 
in  business.  He  has  long  been  secretary  to  the  Alabama  State 
Board  of  Pharmacy.  Mr.  Gait  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  and  for  many  years  has  been  secretary  to  the  vestry. 

ISSUE:  (189)  Gena  Moore  Gait,  b.  Feb.  7,  1872;  d.  July 
12,  1884.  (181)  William  Clark  Gait,  b.  July  9,  1875,  married 
Minnie  Eggleston  and  has  issue:  i.  Edward  Pegram  Gait,  b. 
Nov.  14,  1901;  ii.  Wm.  Eggleston  Gait,  b.  May  5,  1904.  (182) 
Edward  P.  Gait,  b.  Nov.  2,  1878,  d.  Apl.  1,  1889.  (182a)  Annie 
Riggs  Gait,  b.  May  5,  1882,  d.  Dec.  8,  1882.  (183)  Junius 
R-iggs  Gait,  b.  Jan.  2,  1885,  married  Evelyn  Sommerville  Bibb, 
dau.  of  Martha  Bibb  Shepperd  and  Wm.  Crawford  Bibb,  on 
April  17,  1911  and  has  issue:  June  Sommerville  Gait,  b.  Aug. 

1912.  (184)  Mary  Alexander  Gait,  b.  March  5,  1888;  d. 
May  19,  1909. 

(126)  Junius  Moore  Riggs,  son  of  (50)  Georgena  Moore 
and  Joel  Riggs,  and  grandson  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Inglis  Moore,  was 
born  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  Nov.  29,  1851.    His  paternal 

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grandparents  are  Zadock  Riggs  and  wife  Nancy  Flemings  of 
North  Carolina.  Mr.  Riggs  received  a  common  school  education 
and  since  1874  has  been  Marshal  and  Librarian  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Alabama.  He  is  a  Past  Grand  Chancellor  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias^  Domain  of  Alabama^  past  dictator  Knights 
of  Honor  and  is  a  member  of  the  National  Union  and  Fraternal 
Union.  He  is  a  Democrat  and  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church.  Mr.  Riggs  is  compiler  of  the  Catalogues  of 
the  Supreme  Court  Library  and  State  Library.  On  April  11^ 
1888  he  married  Elizabeth  Harris^,  dau.  of  John  Templeton 
Green  and  wife  Elizabeth  Harris^  of  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  the  for- 
mer being  the  son  of  Thos.  M.  Green,  Jr.  and  Wife  Mary  Tem- 
pleton. (Ala.  Official  and  Statistical  Reg.  1903).  Mr.  Riggs 
has  served  as  ]\Iarshal  and  Librarian  of  the  Ala.  Sup.  Ct.  for 
thirty-nine  consecutive  years  and  his  never-failing  courtesy, 
promptness  and  cheerfulness  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  have 
made  friends  of  all  who  have  come  in  contact  with  him  and  he 
commands  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  entire  Bar  of  Alabama. 
He  is  a  gentleman  of  high  character,  generous,  loyal  and  sin- 
cere in  all  the  relations  of  life.    No  issue. 

(127)  Georgena  Caroline  Bird,  eldest  daughter  of  (51) 
Caroline  Sophia  Moore  and  Dr.  Marshall  Henry  Bird,  was  b. 
Oct.  9,  1846,  at  Erie,  Green  Co.  (now  Hale)  Alabama.  At 
Montgomery,  Alabama,  on  Dec.  20,  1866  she  was  married  to 
Thomas  Goode  Jones,  son  of  Samuel  Goode  and  Martha  W. 
Goode  Jones,  who  was  b.  Nov.  26,  1844.  Mrs.  Thos.  G.  Jones 
has  been  a  communicant  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church  since 
early  girlhood  and  takes  a  deep  and  active  interest  in  all  that 
concerns  the  welfare  of  the  parish.  She  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Colonial  Dames  and  the  United  Daughters  of  the  Confed- 
eracy and  for  long  years  has  taken  an  active  and  useful  part  in 
the  labors  of  the  Working  Woman's  Home  of  Montgomery,  an 
institution  founded  and  supported  by  the  ladies  of  Montgomery 
for  the  aid  of  deserving  women.  The  quotation  below  is  from 
an  article  by  Mrs.  Marie  Bankhead  Owen  in  the  Advertiser  of 
Jan.  15,  1911:  "Mrs.  Thos.  G.  Jones,  is  one  woman  who  is 
bitterly  opposed  to  having  her  picture  taken.  For  this  reason 
there  is  no  "counterfeit  presentment"  of  this  noble  woman  in  this 

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galaxy  of  the  "first  ladies  of  Alabama."  She  has  left  a  picture  of 
her  beautiful  life  and  sweety  unselfish  nature  in  the  hearts  of 
the  thousands  of  people  who  know  and  love  her.  She  is  posses- 
sor of  the  universal  mother-heart  and  feels  that  humanity  is  her 
brethren.  If  an  old  friend  or  the  child  of  an  old  friend  is  in 
trouble  or  ill  it's  a  wager  that  'Miss  Gena'  is  the  first  to  be  sent 
for.  All  Montgomery  knows  and  all  Montgomery  loves  her. 
While  several  of  the  governors  have  possessed  large  families  the 
Jones  family  heads  the  procession  with  thirteen  children." 

ISSUE:  (185)  Marshall  Bird  Jones,  b.  Nov.  S,  1869,  mar- 
ried Allie  Stickney  and  died  September,  1901  without  issue. 
(186)  Gena  Moore  Jones;  (187)  Thomas  Goode  Jones,  Jr.,  b. 
June  6,  1873,  d.  Aug.  17,  1873;  (188)  Martha  Goode  Jones; 

(189)  Carrie  Bird  Jones,  b.  Aug.  25,  1876,  d.  Aug.  5,  1901; 

(190)  Madeleine  Clitherall  Jones,  b.  Aug.  23,  1878,  d.  Aug.  14, 
1879;  (191)  Gordon  Houston  Jones;  (192)  Lucy  Spottswood 
Jones;  (193)  Elizabeth  Clitherall  Jones,  b.  Aug.  15,  1883  d. 
May  5,  1885;  (194)  Thomas  Goode  Jones,  Jr.,  b.  June  9,  1885; 
(195)  Samuel  Goode  Jones,  b.  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  May  23, 
1887,  d.  at  Tucson,  Ariz.,  Feb.  12,  1912;  (196)  Walter  Burg- 
wyn  Jones;  (197)  Netta  Sampson  Jones,  b.  Nov.  18,  1889. 

(129)  Hattie  Clitherall  Hall,  dau.  of  No.  55  and  Dr.  A.  P. 
Hall,  was  b.  March  10,  1866,  and  on  July  11,  1887,  she  married 
Henry  A.  Horst,  an  esteemed  citizen  of  Mobile,  Ala.  Mrs. 
Hattie  H.  Horst  died  Feb.  3,  1893. 

ISSUE:  (198)  Henry  Alexander  Horst,  Jr.,  b.  May  8, 
1888;  (199)  Hattie  C.  Hall  Horst,  b.  May  13,  1890.  Married 
June  12,  1912,  to  Jessie  Dixon  Wadsworth  and  has  issue:  Jes- 
sie Dixon  Wadsworth,  Jr.,  b.  March  19,  1913. 

(131)  Richard  Wilmer  Jones,  son  of  No.  65  and  Marion 
Wilmer,  was  b.  July  18,  1870.  He  married  Fannie  Murphree  of 
Dothan,  Alabama,  and  has  issue  as  follows:  (200)  Minnie  Wil- 
mer Jones,  b.  at  Pinckard,  Ala.,  Jan.  16,  1900;  (201)  Clara 
Murphree  Jones,  b.  at  Dothan,  Nov.  20,  1900;  (202)  Harvey 
Ellis  Jones,  Jr.,  b.  at  Bainbridge,  Ga.,  April  23,  1905,  and  a 
son  born  Sept.  30,  1913. 

(132)  Madeleine  Clitherall  Jones,  dau.  of  No.  65  and  Marion 


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Wilmer.  was  b.  Dec.  18^,  1871.  She  married  James  Fontaine 
Maury  and  lives  at  Spring  Hill^  near  Mobile,  Alabama. 

ISSUE;  (203)  Madeleine  C.  Maury,  b.  June  13,  1896; 
(204)  James  F.  Maury,  Jr.,  b.  Dec.  4,  1897;  (205)  Marion 
Wilmer  Maury,  b.  Jan.  19,  1900;  (206)  Harvey  Jones  Maury, 
b.  1902;  (207)  Richard  Wilmer  Maury,  b.  Oct.  13,  1903;  (208) 
Franklin  Hervey  Maury,  b.  Dec.  14,  1905;  (209)  Lewis  Huck 
Maury,  b.  Feb.  7,  1908;  (210)  Betty  Maury,  b.  Feb.  28,  1912. 

(133)  Harvey  Ellis  Jones,  Junior,  son  of  No.  65  and  Marion 
Wilmer,  was  b.  March  20,  1874.  He  married  Dec.  20,  1899, 
Eliza  Hilton  Howell,  of  New  Orleans,  La.    Xo  issue. 

(134)  George  Hurxthal  Jones,  son  of  Xo.  65  and  Marion 
Wilmer,  was  b.  June  29,  1876.  He  married  Madeleine  Fauntle- 
roy,  his  first  cousin. 

ISSUE:  (211)  Dorothy  Burgwin  Jones,  b.  June  21,  1905; 
(212)  Geo.  H.  Jones,  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  2,  1907;  (213)  Phillip  Faun- 
tleroy  Jones,  b.  Dec.  1911. 

(135)  William  Fitzhugh  Jones,  son  of  Xo.  65  and  Marion 
Wilmer,  was  b.  May  26,  1878.  He  is  Captain  of  'Battery  F." 
2nd  Field  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.  He  married  ]Miss  Sarah  Austill 
Brassfield,  of  Florence,  Ala.,  and  has  issue:  (214)  Madeleine 
Wilmer  Jones,  b.  at  Ft.  Caswell,  N.  C,  Sept.  6,  1904. 

(136)  John  Stewart  Jones,  son  of  Xo.  65  and  Marion  Wil- 
mer, was  b.  June  7,  1884.  He  married  Annie  Boiling  Tuttle, 
on  Aug.  24,  1902,  and  has  one  child:  (215)  Annie  Boiling 
Jones,  b.  April  17,  1903. 

(150)  Kate  Ellsberry,  eldest  daughter  of  Xo.  77  and  Wil- 
liam Edward  Ellsberry,  was  born  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  Jan. 
16,  1879.  On  April  28,  1897  she  married  William  Homer 
LeGrand,  who  was  b.  July  21,  1871,  and  is  the  son  of  Milton 
Paul  LeGrand  and  his  wife  Louise  Jones  LeGrand. 

ISSUE:  (216)  Milton  Paul  LeGrand,  b.  Sept.  5,  1898; 
(217)  William  Homer  LeGrand,  b.  Oct.  16,  1901;  (218)  Eloise 
LeGrand,  b.  Nov.  22,  1903.  (219)  Arthur  Ellsberry  LeGrand, 
b.  June  18,  1905,  d.  June  13,  1906. 

(151)  Bessie  Ellsberry,  dau.  of  Xo.  77  and  W.  E.  EUs- 
berry,  was.  b.  at  Montgomery,  Aug.  13,  1881.  On  Xov.  4,  1902 
she  married  Dr.  James  E.  Rushin. 


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ISSUE:    (220)  James  Ellsberry  Rushin,  b.  Nov.  4,  1902.  j 

(152)     Clitherall  Ellsberry,  son  of  No.  77  and  W.  E.  Ells-  i 

berry,  was  b.  Oct.  25,  1873,  and  died  Oct.  10,  1901.    On  Oct.  | 

22,  1898,  he  married  Mary  George,  of  Demopolis.  i 

ISSUE:     (221)  Katherine  Clitherall  Ellsberry,  b.  Oct.  29,  { 

1899.  I 

(156)    Alexander  Clitherall  Birch,  son  of  No.  78,  and  George  ; 

Anthony  Birch,  was  b.  at  Opelika,  Jan.  21,  1876.    On  Nov.  6,  j 

1907,  at  Birmingham,  Ala.,  he  married  George  Weatherly,  eldest  ' 

daughter  of  Hon.  James  Weatherly  and  Florence  Milner  Weath-  j 

erly,  of  Birmingham.    Mrs.  A.  C.  Birch  was  born  at  New  Castle,  ' 

Ala.,  Sept.  30,  1884.  j 

ISSUE:    (222)  Florence  Milner  Birch,  b.  Sept.  2,  1910.  1 

When  Alex.  C.  Birch  was  five  years  old  his  parents  removed  j 

to  Montgomery  and  when  he  was  twelve  years  of  age  he  was  | 
appointed  Executive  Messenger  by  Gov.  Thos.  Seay  and  served 

under  him  for  about  six  months  and  was  re-appointed  by  Gov.  j 

Thos.  G.  Jones.    He    received    a  common  school  education,  leav-  ! 

ing  the  public  schools  when  appointed  Executive  Messenger  and  i 

attending  night  school  during  the  four  years  of  his  service.    He  | 

entered  the  University  of  Alabama  in  Sept.  1893  and  graduated  j 
with  honors,  in  June,  1896.    While  in  College  he  stood  high  in 

his  classes  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  all  of  the  debates  of  the  ] 
literary  society  and  was  a  Commencement  Orator.    After  leaving 

the  University  of  Alabama  he  attended  Washington  and  Lee  \ 

University,  where  he  graduated  with  honors  in  the  law  class  of  ' 

1907  and  was  again  a  commencement  orator.    He  was  admitted  ) 

to  the  Bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Alabama  in  January,  1898  | 
and  was  associated  in  the  practise  of  law  for  five  years  with 

the  law  firm  of  Thos.  G.  &  Chas.  P.  Jones,  one  of  the  leading  \ 

law  firms  of  the  State.    When  Thos.  G.  Jones  was  appointed  j 

U.  S.  Dist.  Judge  by  President  Roosevelt,  Mr.  Birch  removed  j 

to  Birmingham  and  practised  law  there.     He  was  appointed  j 

United  States  Commissioner  by  Judge  Jones  and  served  in  this  j 

capacity  for  two  years  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  appoint-  j 
ment  by  Judge  Jones  as  Referee  in  Bankruptcy  and  he  is  now 
serving  his  fourth  term  in  that  office  where  the  volume  of  business 

in  the  bankruptcy  court  is  third  in  rank  in  the  United  States.  ' 

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Mr.  Birch  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  is  a  member  of  the 
county,  district  and  State  Executive  Committees.  He  vras  a 
delegate  from  the  State  at  Large  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention  of  1912  and  was  a  member  of  the  famous  credentials 
committee  of  that  convention.  He  argued  the  Alabama  Contest 
before  the  National  Committee,  representing  the  Taft  delegates. 
His  thorough  familiarity  ith  the  law  and  facts  and  rules  of  the 
convention  and  his  complete  mastery  of  the  contests  made  such  a 
favorable  impression  that  we  was  retained  by  the  chief  counsel  of 
the  Taft  forces  to  assist  in  the  handling  of  all  contests  before  the 
committee.  Mr.  Birch's  wife  (Miss  George  Weatherly)  is  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Hon.  James  Weatherly.  one  of  the 
City  Commissioners  of  Birmingham  and  one  of  the  foremost 
lawyers  in  Alabama.  Mrs.  Weatherly  is  the  youngest  daughter 
of  Col.  Jno.  T.  Milner.  who  was  associated  with  Samuel  Goode 
Jones,  a  distinguished  civil  engineer  and  father  of  Judge  Thos. 
G.  Jones,  in  pioneer  railroad  building  in  Alabama.  Col.  Milner 
located  the  site  for  Birmingham^  being  at  the  time  an  engineer 
on  the  construction  of  the  South  &  North  Ala.  R.  R. 

(157)  Kate  Clitherall  Birch,  dau.  of  No.  78.  was  b.  at  ^lont- 
gomery.  Dec.  5.  1884.  On  June  1^.  1905  she  was  married  to  Dud- 
ley Lawrence,  of  Lawrence  Park_,  N.  Y. 

ISSUE:  (223)  Dudley  Bates  Lawrence,  b.  Eeb.  26,  1906; 
(224)  Clitherall  Birch,  b.  Jan.  24,  1910;  (225)  Katurah  Van 
Duzer,  b.  March  18,  1912. 

(179)  Carrie  Bird  Tarver,  dau.  of  No.  122,  was  b.  Aug.  12, 
1873.  She  married  Walton  W.  Stewart  (d.  and  has  issue  two 
girls:  (226)  Elva;  (227)  Walton. 

(186)  Gena  Moore  Jones,  eldest  daughter  of  No.  127  and 
Thos.  G.  Jones,  was  born  at  Montgomery,  Nov.  26,  1871.  She 
was  married  first  at  Montgomery  on  Jan.  24,  1894,  to  Charles 
Thomas  Holt,  who  was  born  at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Rockingham  Co.,  N. 
C=,  Jan.  9.  1858,  and  died  at  Haw  River,  N.  C,  Dec.  13,  1900, 
and  is  buried  in  the  family  burying  ground  at  Graham,  N.  C. 
Mr.  Holt  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Michael,  who  was  Governor  of 
North  Carolina  in  1891,  and  his  wife  Louisa  Moore  Holt. 

ISSUE:  (223)  Louisa  Moore  Holt,  b.  at  Haw  River,  N.  C, 
July  3,  1899;  both  her  maternal  and  paternal  grand-fathers  were 

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Governors  of  Alabama  and  North  Carolina  respectively  in  1891. 
Mrs.  Gena  Jones  Holt  married  (2nd)  the  Rev.  Horace  Thorn- 
burgh  Owen  at  Haw  River,  N.  on  October  22,  1902.  Mr. 
Owen  was  born  at  Adrian,  Mich.,  June  22,  1875  and  is  the  son 
of  the  Reverend  Oliver  Owen  and  his  wife  Maria  Wilson  Owen. 
Rev.  Horace  T.  Owen  was  assistant  minister  in  Trinity  Parish, 
N.  J.  and  was  Rector  of  St.  Athanasius  Church,  Burlington,  N. 
C.  and  is  at  present  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Trenton,  New 
Jersey:  address  331  Center  St.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

ISSUE:  (224)  Horace  T.  Owen,  Jr.,  b.  at  Haw  River,  N.  C. 
Oct.  9,  1903;  (225)  Thomas  Jones  Owen,  b.  at  Trenton,  N.  J.. 

Oct.  5,  1908       (225a)  Gena  Moore  Owen,  b.  at  Trenton,  N.  J., 

March  3,  1910. 

(188)  Martha  Goode  Jones,  daughter  of  No.  127  and  Thos. 
G.  Jones,  was  born  at  Montgomery,  Aug.  10,  1875  and  was 
married  to  Thomas  Willis  Cohoon  at  Montgomery,  on  Jan.  30, 
1895.  Mr.  Cohoon  was  born  at  CEDAR  VALE,  (built  by  his 
great  great  great  grandfather  in  1742)  Nansemond  County,  Va., 
March  11,  1864.  He  is  the  son  of  Willis  Everett  Cohoon,  b. 
Jan.  4,  1824,  and  (son  of  John  Cowper  and  Mary  Louisa 
Everett  Cohoon),  died  April  25,  1880,  and  his  wife  Martha  Cor- 
nelia Smith  Cohoon,  who  was  b.  Feb.  25,  1830  and  died  June  4, 
1865.  Mr.  Cohoon  is  a  nephew  of  the  late  Col.  Thos.  W.  Smith 
of  Suffolk,  Va. 

ISSUE:  (227)  Gena  Cohoon,  b.  Dec.  14,  1895;  (228) 
Thomas  Jones  Cohoon,  b.  Oct.  10,  1897;  (229)  Louise  Cohoon, 
b.  March  12,  1900,  d.  March  30,  1900;  (230)  Willis  Everett 
Cohoon,  b.  Apl.  8,  1902;  (231)  Martha  Goode  Cohoon,  b.  at 
Suffolk,  Va.,  July  29,  1913. 

(191)  Gordon  Houston  Jones,  son  of  No.  127  and  Thos.  G. 
Jones,  "was  born  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  June  15,  1880,  and  died 
there  July  30,  1911,  after  an  illness  extending  over  a  year.  He 
was  initiated  into  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  by  Ala.  Mu  chapter, 
on  Sept.  13,  1898,  while  a  sophomore  at  the  Alabama  Polytech- 
nic Institute,  Auburn,  Ala.  At  the  time  of  his  death  young  Jones 
held  a  responsible  position  in  Kansas  City.  His  kindness  of 
heart,  his  loyalty  and  devotion  to  his  friends,  and  his  pleasing 
address  drew  about  him  a  large  circle  of  friends  who  mourn  his 

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WALTER  BURGWYN  JONES 
In  1907 


untimely  demise.  Xo  one  could  know  Gordon  Jones  and  fail  to 
love  him.  His  cheerful  disposition^  his  generosity  and  chari- 
tableness for  the  frailities  of  others^  and  willingness  to  go  to  any 
inconvenience  or  sacrifice  if  thereby  he  might  aid  his  friends 
attached  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact  by  a  stronger  bond 
of  friendship  than  usually  exists."  (From  the  Record  of  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon^  Sept.  1911).  He  married  Marion  Louise  War- 
ford  and  died  without  issue. 

(196)  Walter'  Burgwyn  Jones^  youngest  son  of  Thomas 
Goode  Jones  and  his  wife  (127)  Georgena  Caroline  Bird^  was  b. 
at  Montgomery^  Ala.,  Oct.  16,  1888.  He  was  educated  at  the 
private  school  of  Miss  Gussie  Woodruff  and  later  attended  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city.  He  entered  the  freshman  class 
of  the  Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute  and  was  there  during  the 
session  of  1906-7.  The  next  year,  fall  of  1907.  he  entered  the 
law  department  of  the  University  of  Alabama,  graudating  May 
26.  1909.  with  "Highest  Honors"  and  was  given  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Laws.  The  next  day,  May  27th,  though  less  than 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  was  licensed  by  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Alabama  to  practise  as  an  attorney  at  law  and  solicitor  in 
chancery  in  all  the  courts  of  Alabama,  and  on  July  3,  1909  was 
admitted  to  practise  in  the  United  States  District  and  Circuit 
Courts. 

Walter  B.  Jones  was  initiated  into  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  by 
Ala.  Alpha  Mu  Chapter,  Sept.  IS,  1906  and  the  next  year  affili- 
ated with  Ala.-Mu  Chapter  and  served  as  eminent  archon  of  that 
chapter.  While  at  the  University  he  was  vice-president  of  the 
Kent  Law  Club  and  was  President  of  the  Law  Class  of  1909. 
He  is  a  Democrat  and  has  always  taken  an  interest  in  politics 
and  was  Asst.  Secretary  to  the  Montgomery  County  Anti- Amend- 
ment Committee  in  1909.  He  is  a  lawyer  and  private  secretary 
to  the  U.  S.  Dist.  Judge  for  the  N.  &  M.  Dists.  of  Alabama, 
having  held  this  position  since  May,  1911.  Mr.  Jones  is  a 
Knight  of  Pythias  and  Chancellor  Commander  of  Central  Lodge 
No.  9  and  a  member  of  the  Dramatic  Order  Knights  of  Khoras- 
san,  and  past  Commander  1st  Brigade,  Ala.  Div.  S.  C.  V.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Country  Club  of  ^Montgomery,  and  the 


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White  Water  Club,  of  Autauga  Co.  He  is  the  compiler  of  the 
family  history  and  genealogy  of  "John  Burgwin,  Carolinian 
and  John  Jones,  Virginian."  Address:  323  Adams  Avenue, 
Montgomery,  Alabama. 


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The  Joneses 


THE  JONESES 


HE  name  JONES  is  of  Welsh  origin  and  is  in  the 
possessive  case,  being  derived  from  the  Chris- 
tian name  JOHN.  "The  Welsh,  until  quite  mod- 
ern times,  distinguished  themselves  from  one 
another  by  employing  the  Welsh  peposition  "ap/^  which  lib- 
erally rendered  means  the  son  of.  Thus,  if  a  Welshman  named 
John  had  a  son  named  Thomas,  the  son  was  called  for  distinction 
Thomas  ap  John.  Or  if  it  were  desired  to  distinguish  Thomas 
with  great  particularity,  the  name  of  another  ancestor  was  added: 
as,  if  John's  father  were  named  Roger,  they  would  call  Thomas 
in  that  event  Thomas  ap  John  ap  Roger,  and  so  on  ad  infinitum. 
The  Welsh  had  no  other  names  until  the  English,  by  act  of  Par- 
liament, compelled  them  to  adopt  their  custom  or  surnames,  when 
the  Welsh,  no  doubt  as  a  matter  of  sentiment,  and  naturally  not 
wishing  to  make  any  departure  from  their  accustomed  names, 
simply  adopted  their  father's  Christian  name  for  their  surname. 
Thus,  what  before  had  been  Thomas  ap  John,  or  Thomas  the 
son  of  John,  or  Thomas  John  his  son,  became  Thomas  Johnhis, 
and  by  abbreviation  in  the  course  of  time,  Thomas  John;  or 
inserting  an  "e"  for  the  sake  of  euphony,  Thomas  Johnes  or 
Jones.  And  the  fact  that  the  name  John  was  a  favorite  name 
with  the  Welsh  will  sufficiently  account  for  the  frequent  recur- 
rence of  the  name  Jones  among  that  people  and  elsewhere.  The 
great  warrior  and  crusader.  Sir  Hugh  Johnys  or  Jones,  derived 
his  name  in  this  way."    (L.  H.  Jones'  Family  History). 

The  Reverend  RICHARD^  JONES,  of  Welsh  extraction, 
married  Lady  Jeffries,  of  the  Manor  of  Ley,  and  settled  in 
Devonshire,  Eng.  He  patented  1500  acres  of  land  in  Prince 
George  County,  near  Merchant's  Hope.  (W.  &  M.  Q.  X:247). 
One  of  his  sons  Major  PETERS  JONES,  married  Margaret 
Wood,  dau.  of  Major  General  Abraham  Wood  who  "came  to 
Virginia  in  1620,  as  a  little  boy  of  ten  years,  in  the  Margaret 

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and  John,  commanded  by  Capt.  Anthony  Chester.  This  ves- 
sel had  a  great  fight  on  the  way  over  with  two  Spanish  men-of- 
war^  and  beat  them  off.  *  *  ^  Little  Abraham  escaped  unhurt, 
and  in  1625  was  living  at  Jamestown  in  the  employment  of  Capt. 
Samuel  Mathews.  He  rose  rapidly  to  public  prominence,  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses^,  a  member  of  the  Council,  and 
in  1671,  was  a  one  of  the  four  major  generals  commanding  the 
military  establishment  of  Virginia.  In  1646  he  was  made  Cap- 
tain of  Fort  Henry,  at  the  modern  Petersburg,  and  in  1658 
was  colonel  of  the  militia  of  Charles  City  and  Henrico  Counties. 
The  land  at  Fort  Henry,  together  with  all  the  houses,  boats  and 
ammunition  belonging  thereto  was  granted  to  Capt.  Wood  on 
the  condition  that  for  three  years  he  should  keep  up  a  garrision 
there  for  the  defense  of  the  colony.  General  Wood  was  public 
spirited  and  he  sent  various  expeditions  to  explore  the  country 
westward.  In  1680  he  negotiated  a  treaty  with  the  Indians 
which  received  the  praise  of  the  governor.  He  doubtless  died 
soon  after."    (W.  &  M.  Q.,  XIX:287). 

Major  PETER  JONES^,  in  1676,  was  placed  in  command  of 
57  men  from  Elizabeth  City,  Warwick  and  James  City  counties. 
They  were  a  part  of  the  force  used  to  repress  Indian  disturbances 
on  the  frontier.  His  son.  Captain  PETERS  JONES,  was  in 
1722  a  vestryman  of  Bristol  (Va.)  Parish  and  was  captain  of  the 
Prince  George  County  militia.    His  will  was  proved  March  10, 

1726.     He  married  Mary   ,  and  had  many  children, 

among  them.  Major  PETERS  JONES,  from  whom  the  town 
Petersburg,  Va.  derives  its  name.  He  opened  a  trading  estab- 
lishment there  at  an  early  day  a  few  rods  west  of  what  is  now  the 
junction  of  Sycamore  and  Old  Sts.  The  location  was  called 
Peter's  Point  and  was  subsequently  changed  to  Petersburg. 
Major  PETER*  JONES  was  an  old  friend  and  fellow  traveller 
of  Col.  William  Byrd,  of  Westover,  and  in  1733  accompanied  the 
latter  on  a  journey  to  Roanoke,  on  which  occasion  the  plan  of  es- 
tablishing Richmond  and  Petersburg  was  conceived.  He  was  a 
vestryman  of  Bristol    Parish,  captain    and  then  major  of  the 

Prince  George  Militia.    He  married  Dorothy  .    His  will 

was  proved  in  Amelia,  Dec.  24,  1754.  (W.  &  M.  Q.,  XIX:289; 
Va.  Mag.  of  Hist.  &  Biog.,  VI:86). 

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JOHN^  JONES,  Gentleman,  (RICHARD^  PETERS 
PETER^  PETERS)  lived  at  "Level  Grove/'  Brunswick  Coun- 
ty, Va.  He  married,  July  22,  1758,  Elizabeth  Binns,  dau.  of 
Chas.  Binns,  whose  mother  was  Elizabeth  Ashton  and  a  grand- 
child of  Sir  Chas.  Ashton,  of  England.  There  was  a  tradition 
in  his  family,  regarding  his  ancestry,  that  would  indicate  that  he 
was  a  descendant  of  Frederick,  the  elder  of  the  two  sons  of  Capt. 
Roger  Jones,  a  Cavalier,  who  came  to  Va.,  in  1680,  with  Lord 
Culpeper,  and  commanded  a  sloop  which  was  stationed  in  Ches- 
apeake Bay  for  the  suppression  of  Piracy,  and  who,  returning  to 
London,  died  there  in  1700.  The  tradition,  however,  does  not 
seem  well  founded. 

JOHN^  JONES  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  House  of 
Burgesses  before  the  Revolution  from  Brunswick  during  the 
years  1772-75.  In  1779-80  he  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia 
Senate  representing  the  counties  of  Brunswick,  Lunenburg  and 
Mcklenburg,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Privi- 
leges and  Elections.  He  also  served  on  this  same  committee  at 
the  session  of  1785.  From  the  Journals  of  the  Virginia  Senate. 
1786,  under  date  of  Nov.  7th,  it  appears  that  "Mr.  John  Jones 
reminded  the  Senate  of  the  necessity  of  proceeding  to  the  election 
of  a  Speaker,  and  recommended  Archibald  Cary,  Esq."  Nov. 
22,  "Resolved,  That  John  Jones,  Esquire,  be  appointed  Speaker 
of  the  House,  during  the  indisposition  of  Archibald  Cary,  Esq." 
From  the  Journals  of  the  Va.  Senate,  1787:  "Oct.  16th.  Nicholas 
Cabell,  Esquire,  recommened  John  Jones,  Esquire,  who  on  a  for- 
mer occasion  acted  as  Speaker,  as  a  person  in  every  respect 
qualified  to  fill  the  office  again,  and  was  seconded  by  Chas. 
Lind,  Esq.,  ^  *  *  Mr.  Jones  being  duly  elected  Speaker  of  the 
House  was  conducted  to  the  Chair."  From  the  Journal  of  the 
Va.  Senate,  1788:  "June  25th.  Stephen  Thompson  Mason,  Esq., 
reminded  the  House  of  the  necessity  of  proceeding  to  the  choice 
of  a  Speaker,  and  recommended  John  Jones,  Esq.,  who  on  a 
former  occasion  with  great  ability  and  impartiality  discharged 
the  duties  of  this  important  office,  and  was  seconded  by  Nicholas 
Cabell,  Esq.  Whereupon  it  was  unanimously  resolved  that  the 
said  John  Jones,  Esq.,  be  selected  Speaker  of  the  House.'* 
From  the  Journal  of  the  Va.  Senate,  1789:  "Oct.  20.  Ordered. 

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That  writs  issue  to  the  Sheriffs  of  the  counties  comprising  the 
district  of  Brunswick,  Mecklenburg,  Lunenburg,  and  Greenville 
to  choose  a  senator,  John  Jones,  Esq.,  having  accepted  the  office 
of  Clerk  of  Brunswick."  At  page  261  of  Vol.  II  of  the  Calen- 
dar of  Virginia  State  papers  appears  the  following:  "Col.  John 
Jones  to  Gov.  Nelson,  Brunswick  County,  July  27th,  1781,  in- 
forming him  of  a  mesage  from  Gov.  Burke  of  N.  C,  desiring 
him  to  co-operate  with  the  militia  of  the  county  in  defending  the 
fords  of  the  Dan  and  Stanton  Rivers  against  the  enemy.  iVlso 
of  orders  from  Col.  Davies  to  send  one  fourth  of  the  militia  of 
the  field  at  once,  adds:  "Col.  Tarleton  passed  through  our  county 
last  week  on  his  return  to  Portsmouth,  and  disturbed  the  in- 
habitants greatly."  It  was  on  this  occasion  that  Col.  Jones, 
who  was  also  known  among  his  neighbors  and  friends  as  'Jack 
Jones,'  harassed  Tarleton  with  his  militia  and  Tarleton  seeing 
how  vigorous  and  active  Col.  Jones  was  in  his  movements  ex- 
claimed: "There  is  Jack  Jones  fighting  like  a  hell-cat"  and 
attempted  to  kill  him.  For  many  years  after  this  Col.  Jones 
was  known  only  by  the  name  of  'Hell  Cat  Jones.'  On  page  570 
of  the  same  volume  appears  the  following:  "Brunswick  County, 
Oct.  30,  1781,  Col.  Jones  most  heartily  congratulates  the  Gov- 
ernor on  the  late  glorious  victory  at  York.  Under  the  late  orders 
he  has  kept  one  fourth  of  the  militia  of  the  county  constantly  in 
the  field  but  has  lately  heard  that  his  excellency  has  since  issued 
orders  for  their  discharge,  except  75.  Not  having  received  any 
instructions  since  the  seige  of  York,  he  feels  obliged  to  trouble 
his  Excellency  for  information  on  the  subject  whether  he  is 
to  send  any  more  men." 

Col.  JOHN^  JONES'  son,  JOHN^  JONES,  was  b.  March 
SO,  1764.  Although  very  young  when  the  Revolutionary  War 
began  he  joined  Gen.  Green's  command  and  was  in  the  Battle 
of  King's  Mountain,  Oct.  7,  1780,  the  Battle  of  Cowpens,  Jan. 
17,  1781  and  Guilford  C.  H.  March  15,  1781.  On  June  6,  1787 
he  was  married  to  Lucy  Binns  Cargill.  She  was  b.  Dec.  18, 
1768  and  was  the  daughter  of  John  Cargill  and  Lucy  Binns  his 
wife  whom  he  married  Aug.  31,  1766.  Her  father  John  Cargill 
was  the  son  of  John  Cargill  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Harrison. 
This  Elizabeth  Harrison  was  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Harrison 

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THOMAS  WILLIAMSON  JONES,  M.  D. 
1789-1824 


and  Mrs.  Mary  Young  (nee  Cary).  The  said  Xathaniel  Harri- 
son was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Harrison.  He  was  Auditor  General 
and  a  ^Member  of  the  Council  and  was  b.  Aug.  8.  1677  dying 
Nov.  30.  1727.  Xathaniel  Harrison's  father.  Benjamin  Har- 
rison, of  "Wakefield."'"  Surry,  was  b.  Sept.  20.  1645  and  was  a 
Member  of  the  Council  from  1699  and  he  died  Jan.  SO,  1712-3. 
(References:  Keith's  Ancestry  of  Benj.  Harrison;  Campbell's 
History  of  Va.)  Lucy  Binns  was  a  sister  of  Elizth.  Binns  who 
married  CoL  JOHX-^  JOXES. 

Dr.  THOMAS'  WILLIAMSOX  JOXES,  b.  June  25,  1789 
was  the  son  of  Capt.  JOHX^  JOXES  and  his  wife  Lucy  Binns 
Cargill.  The  Rev.  Jolin  Cargill,  of  the  Church  of  England  was 
b.  in  Scotland  but  came  to  Va.  in  1708,  where  he  took  charge  of 
Southward  Parish,  Surry  which  he  held  until  his  death  in  1732. 
His  will  proved  in  Surry,  April  19.  1732  names  his  son  John 
Cargill.  The  latter  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in 
1742,  and  died  not  long  before  April  17,  1744,  when  his  wife 
administered  upon  his  estate.  (Surry  Records)  His  wife  was 
Elizabeth  Harrison,  who,  in  her  will  proved  in  Surry,  May  15, 
1753,  names  her  daughters  Lucy  and  Elizabeth,  and  appoints 
her  brothers,  Xathaniel  and  Benjamin  Harrison  executors. 
Though  she  does  not  name  her  son.  Jolm  Cargill,  the  third,  she 
certainly  left  a  son  of  that  name,  for  the  will  of  Xicholas  Mas- 
senberg,  who  married  her  dau.  Lucy,  appoints  Massenberg's 
wife,  Lucy  and  his  brother-in-law  John  Cargill,  executors.  John 
Cargill.  the  third,  lived  at  "IXVERMAY,"  Sussex  Coimty., 
and  died  Dec.  2,  1777  and  in  his  will  proved  in  Sussex.  Dec.  18, 
1777.  names  his  third  wife  Anne,  his  daughter,  Lucy  Binns 
Cargill  and  others.  By  his  second  marriage  with  Lucy  Binns, 
whom  he  married  Aug.  31,  1766,  he  had  a  daughter  Lucy  Binns 
Cargill,  b.  Dec.  18,  1768. 

Dr.  THOS.'  AV.  JOXES,  though  quite  a  young  man,  had  al- 
ready risen  to  eminence  in  his  profession  at  the  time  he  was  killed 
near  Mt.  Pleasant  Grove  Church  by  being  thrown  from  what  in 
those  days  was  called  a  'gig.'  His  horse  ran  away  and  in  the 
mad  flight  brought  the  vehicle  in  contact  with  a  stump  on  one 
side  of  the  road,  wliich  threw  the  occupant  violently  against  one 


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on  the  opposite  side,  causing  injuries  which  resulted  in  his  death, 
on  July  21,  1824.  Dr.  Jones'  younger  brother,  Rev.  John  C. 
Jones,  was  the  father  of  the  late  Richard  Channing  Jones,  of 
Camdem,  Wilcox  Co.,  Ala.  R.  C.  Jones  was  a  gallant  Confede- 
rate soldier,  an  eminent  lawyer,  a  useful  citizen,  and  was  for 
seven  years  President  of  the  University  of  Alabama.  Another 
son  of  Rev.  J.  C.  Jones,  Virginius,  was  a  gallant  Confederate 
soldier  who  met  his  death  at  the  Battle  of  the  Wilderness.  An- 
other son  was  Dr.  J.  Paul  Jones  who  rose  to  great  eminence  in 
his  profession  and  was  one  of  the  most  esteemed  citizens  of  Wil- 
cox Co.,  Ala. 

On  Feb.  17,  1814,  Dr.  THOMAS^  W.  JONES  was  married 
to  Mary  Armistead  Goode,  (b.  Feb.  17,  1795)  dau.  of  Col. 
Samuel  Goode,  who  was  b.  at  WHITBY,  Chesterfield  Co.,  Va., 
March  21,  1756.  Col.  Goode  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Chesterfield  Troop  of  Horse  during  the  Revolution  and  later  a 
colonel  of  Va.  militia.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Va.  House 
of  Burgesses,  1779-83  and  served  in  the  6th  U.  S.  Congress^ 
(Mar.  4,  1799,  March  3,  1801)  which  held  its  sessions  at 
Philadelphia.  Col.  Goode's  father  was  Robert  Goode,  (b.  July 
19,  1711,  d.  March  6,  1765)  a  planter  of  the  old  school  and  a 
man  of  ample  means,  whose  wife  was  Mary  Turpin  (b.  Sept. 
6,  1720,  d.  Oct.  29,  1770).  The  parents  of  Col.  Samuel  Goode's 
father  were  Robt.  Goode  (s.  of  Jno.  and  Martha  Mackarness 
Goode)  of  WHITBY,  who  married  in  1710,  Elizabeth  Curd, 
(d.  Nov.  30,  1766).  John  Goode,  great  grand-father  of  Col. 
Samuel  Goode,  was  a  son  of  Richard  Goode  and  was  born  at 
WHITBY,  or  Whitley,  in  the  north  of  Cornwall,  1620-30.  He 
came  to  Virginia  prior  to  1660  and  settled  on  the  colonial  frontier 
four  miles  from  Richmond,  calling  his  home  WHITBY  and  here 
he  died  in  1709.  He  has  been  described  as  "an  old  fox-hunting 
^English  esquire"  and  the  story  has  been  handed  down  that  he 
was  a  Cavalier,  whose  loyalty  to  King  Charles  caused  him  to  be 
driven  from  home  a  political  exile. 

On  October  5,  1786,  Col.  Goode  (father  of  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Thos.  W.  Jones)  married  Mary  Armistead  Burwell,  who  died 
March  20,  1829.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Col.  Lewis  Burwell, 
of  STONELAND,  who  was  a  son  of  Col.  Armistead  Burwell 

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and  Christian  Blair  his  wife.  The  said  Christian  Blair  was  the 
daughter  of  John  Blair  and  Mary  Monro  his  wife.  Col.  Armi- 
stead  Burwell  was  the  son  of  Lewis  Burwell  and  Armi- 
stead^  his  wife.  The  said  Lewis  Burwell  was  the  son  of 
Lewis  Burwell-,  of  Carter's  Creek,  Gloucester,  and  'King's 
Creek,'  York.  He  was  appointed  to  the  Council  in  1702  and  died 
Dec.  19,  1710.  He  married  secondly  Martha  Lear,  dau.  of  Col. 
John  Lear,  of  the  Devonshire  family  of  the  name.  As  Capt. 
John  Lear  he  was  a  Member  of  the  Council  in  1683  and  died 
June  27,  1696.  (See  Colonial  Virginia  Register)  John  Blair, 
father  of  Christian  Blair,  was  b.  in  Williamsburg,  Va.,  in  1689 
and  died  there  Nov.  5,  1771.  He  was  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses  as  early  as  1736,  and  was  president  of  the  Council. 
By  virtue  of  his  office  he  was  acting  Governor  of  Va.  in  1757, 
1758,  and  1768.  He  was  a  nephew  of  old  Comissary  Blair,  whom 
he  succeeded  in  the  Council.  Gov.  Blair  married  Mary  Monro. 
(See  Campbell's  History  of  Va.  pp.  553-4  and  D.  Appleton's 
American  Biographies.)  Col.  Lewis  Burwell,  of  STONE- 
LAND,  was  b.  Sept.  26,  1745.  He  commanded  a  regiment  dur- 
ing the  Revolution  and  for  fourteen  years  was  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Legislature.  On  March  24,  1768,  he  married  Ann 
Spottswood.  Col.  Burwell  died  July  2,  1800  and  is  buried 
four  miles  from  Chase  City,  Va.  The  large  STONELAND  man- 
sion was  destroyed  by  fire  shortly  afterwards  and  Henry  Harri- 
son Burwell,  Col.  Burwell's  son  by  his  second  wife,  and  his  wife, 
a  bride  of  a  few  weeks  whom  he  was  trying  to  save  both  perished 
in  the  flames.  Anne  Spotswood,  wife  of  Col.  Burwell,  was  the 
dau.  of  John  Spotswood  and  Mary  Dandrige  his  wife.  Mary 
Dandridge  was  a  dau.  of  Capt.  William  Dandrige  and  Unity 
West  his  vrife.  The  said  Unity  West  was  a  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel West,  who  was  a  son  of  Unity  Croshaw  and  husband, 
John  West.  This  John  West  was  the  son  of  John  West  and 
Anne  Knolleys.  John  West,  bro.  of  Thos.  West,  3rd  Lord  Dela- 
ware, was  b.  in  Hampshire,  Eng.  Dec.  14,  1590.  He  was  a 
Member  of  the  Council  from  1630  until  his  death  about  1659 
and  was  Governor  of  Virginia  in  1735-37.  He  married  Anne 
Knolleys  and  had  one  son.  Col.  John  West,  of  WEST  POINT, 
King  Vv^illiam  County,  Va.,  who  married  Lenity  Croshaw.  (See 

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William  &  Mary  Quarterly^  Vol.  Ill,  p.  66  and  papers  accepted 
by  the  Va.  Soc.  Colonial  Dames  of  America.)  John  Spotswood 
was  the  son  of  Governor  Alexander  Spotswood,  of  Virginia  and 
his  wife  Anne  Butler  Bryan  (pronounced  Brain),  who  was  a 
daughter  of  Richard  Bryan,  Esq.,  of  Westminster.  She  was 
an  English  Lady,  whose  Christian  name  was  taken  from  James 
Butler,  Duke  of  Ormond,  her  god-father.  Gov.  Spotswood  was 
b.  in  1676  at  Tangier,  then  an  English  colony  in  Africa  and  his 
father,  Robert  Spotswood  was  physician  to  the  Governor.  Gov. 
Alexr.  Spotwood's  son  John,  married  in  174*5  Mary  Dandridge. 
dau.  of  Wm.  Dandridge  of  the  British  Navy,  and  their  daughter 
Anne  Spotswood  married  Col.  Lewis  Burwell,  of  STONELAND, 
Mecklenburg  Co.,  Va.  (See  Hist,  of  Colony  and  Ancient  Do- 
minion of  Va.  by  Chas.  Campbell,  pp.  378-9;  407-408  and 
Goode's  Va.  Cousins  62-3,  121-2). 

Mrs.  Thos.  W.  Jones  was  generally  known  as  Mrs.  "Polly 
Jones."  She  was  a  woman  of  strong  character,  great  self-re- 
liance and  of  a  very  high  order  of  intelligence.  The  untimely 
death  of  her  husband  left  her  with  four  small  children  to  care 
for.  She  devoted  herself  to  teaching  and  became  one  of  the 
most  loved  and  prominent  female  educators  of  Va.,  being  emi- 
nently successful  in  her  work  and  earning  a  small  fortune  by  her 
labors.  She  died  May  22,  1871  at  the  home  of  her  son-in-law 
Dr.  Geo.  Mason  who  married  JLucy  B.  Jones,  and  lived  at 
HOMESTEAD,  Greenville  Co.,  Va. 

Dr.  THOS.^  WILLIAMSON  JONES'  eldest  son  SAMUEL^ 
GOODE  JONES  was  b.  Sept.  20,  1815  at  INVERMAY,  the 
residence  of  his  great  grandfather  Col.  Samuel  Goode  in  Meck- 
lenburg County,  Va.  The  following  extracts  from  a  letter  of 
Samuel  G.  Jones,  under  date  of  May  4,  1885,  a  year  before  his 
death  to  his  eldest  son  THOMAS^  GOODE  JONES  gives  a 
good  account  of  the,  former's  early  life.  After  stating  in  the 
letter  that  he  (SamueF)  was  educated  at  Old  Ebenezer  Academy 
in  Brunswick  Co.,  the  letter  says: 

"Mr.  Dwight  (principal  of  Ebenezer  Academy)  induced  sev- 
eral of  his  pupils  to  return  North  with  him,  myself  amongst  the 
rest.    We  completed  our  preparation  for  entering  college  at  old 

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Hadley.  Mass..  beautifuUv  situated  in  the  bend  of  the  Connecti- 
cut River  and  nearly  midway  bet^veen  Xorthampton  and  Am- 
herst where  Amherst  College  was  situated.  The  prevailing  sen- 
timent of  Hadley  was  strongly  in  favor  of  Amherst  College, 
only  a  few  miles  distant,  but  the  love  of  alma  mater  on  the  part 
of  'Mr.  Dwight.  our  former  teacher,  directed  our  steps  to  Williams 
College  where  I  entered  the  freshman  class  in  1833  and  gradu- 
ated with  one  of  the  honors  of  my  class  in  1837.  I  mention  en 
passant  that  while  in  Hadley  I  went  to  the  same  school  with 
Joe  Hooker,  who.  soon  after  entered  the  West  Point  Alilitary 
Academy  and  was  known  during  the  late  unpleasantness  as 
'fighting  Joe  Hooker."  After  leaving  college  I  went  to  Xewark. 
Delaware,  to  complete  my  preparations  for  entering  on  the  active 
duties  of  my  chosen  profession — civil  engineering — under  the 
instructions  of  Gen.  Wm.  X.  Pendleton,  then  the  professor  of 
Mathematics  in  Xewark  College.  Delaware.  ]\Iajor  Walter 
Gwyn.  then  one  of  the  very  few  prominent  civil  engineers  in  the 
country  having  promised  me  that  if  I  would  take  a  prescribed 
course  in  college  and  finish  vdth  Gen.  Pendleton  he  would  give 
me  a  position  in  his  corps. 

"I  fulfilled  all  the  conditions  on  my  part,  but  when  I  was 
ready  for  work  Air.  Gwyn  did  not  have  it  in  his  power  to  offer 
me  a  situation  and  I  got  on  my  horse  and  rode  over  to  Xorth 
Carolina  where  Charles  Fenton  Alercer  Garnett  was  filling  the 
position  of  chief  engineer  on  the  Ealeigh  &  Gaston  R.  R.  and  I 
applied  to  him  for  a  place  on  his  railroad  but  there  was  no 
vacancy  and  I  returned  home  somewhat  discouraged,  but  within 
a  few  days  I  was  oft"  to  Richmond  on  horseback  in  prosecution 
of  my  determination  to  find  work. 

"On  my  way  down  I  met  Hon.  R.  K.  Alead.  who.  on  learning 
the  object  of  my  trip  desired  me  to  remain  in  Richmond  until  he 
returned,  he  was  then  a  member  of  the  Va.  State  Senate,  and 
said  he  thought  he  could  secure  me  a  position  on  the  James 
River  &  Kanawha  Canal  through  his  influence  with  Air.  Jos. 
CabbeU.  then  president  of  the  Canal  Co.  I  took  his  advice  and 
upon  his  return  secured  a  place  on  the  canal  which  was  then 
in  operation  a  short  distance  above  Richmond  and  in  course  of 
construction  between    and  Lynchburg.  I  was  stationed 


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in  Nelson  Co.,  Va.,  and  amongst  my  first  responsibilities  was  the 
superintendence  under  the  direction  of  Jos.  Byers,  Asst.  Engi- 
neer, of  the  construction  of  a  dam  across  the  James  River  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Tye  River.  I  had  familiarized  myself  with  the  re- 
quirements of  the  contract  and  insisted  that  they  should  be 
carried  out,  but  on  account  of  my  youth  (that  sounds  strange 
now  to  one  in  his  seventieth  year)  and  inexperience,  the  contrac- 
tors were  loath  to  obey  my  directions,  and  feeling  that  a  great 
deal  depended  upon  the  faithful  execution  of  the  work  and  un- 
willing to  be  made  a  cypher  of,  I  complained  to  Mr.  Chas. 
EUitt,  Chief  Engineer,  who,  in  reply  to  their  plea  of  my  youth 
and  inexperience,  said  he  liked  my  experience  very  much  and  in 
evidence  of  his  appreciation  of  my  services  he  recommended  me 
at  once  to  the  Board  of  Directors  for  promotion.  His  recom- 
mendation was  acted  on  favorably  and  my  promotion,  the  second 
earliest  that  had  been  made  in  the  large  corps  of  fifty  men, 
ordered.  The  date  of  my  entry  into  the  service  of  the  Canal 
Co.  was  March,  1838.  I  remained  with  them  until  September, 
1839  and  then,  on  invitation  of  my  hereditary  friend,  L.  N. 
Whittle,  at  whose  house  you  were  born  in  November,  1844,  I 
came  South  and  accepted  the  position  of  Asst.  Engineer  on  the 
Monroe  Railroad,  now  known  as  the  Macon  &  Western  R.  R., 
connecting  Macon  and  Atlanta.  The  road  was  then  in  operation 
to  Forsyth,  24  miles  above  Macon,  and  I  was  engaged  on  the 
extension  between  Forsyth  and  Atlanta,  then  called  Marthas- 
ville.  My  first  division  was  near  Griffin,  Ga.,  but  I  was  subse- 
quently moved  to  the  upper  end  of  the  road  and  stationed  at 
White  Hall,  now  a  suburb  of  Atlanta. 

"Very  soon  after  I  came  to  Georgia,  the  Monroe  Railroad  & 
Banking  Co.  became  very  seriously  embarrassed  and  coming 
from  Virginia  where  I  had  never  heard  of  a  bank  failure  and  full 
of  zeal  in  sustaining  the  bank  in  its  troubles,  I  put  my  little 
patrimony  into  the  Bank  and  lost  three-fourths  of  it,  for  the 
paper  of  the  Bank  was  worth  only  25  cents,  on  the  dollar  when 
I  was  able  to  withdraw  my  deposit.  My  effort  to  aid  the  Bank 
was  about  as  sensible  and  futile  as  placing  one's  finger  or  big^ 
toe  under  the  drivers  of  a  locomotive  for  the  purpose  of  stopping 
its  progress.    I  was  at  that  time,  you  see,  buying  knowledge  at 

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a  high  price.  Our  Chief  Engineer  Mr.  Daniel  GrifFin  having 
resigned  and  recommended  me  as  his  successor  I  was,  in  1841, 
chosen  Chief  Engineer  and  although  my  salary  was  small  I 
thought  it,  and  the  position  I  held,  justified  me  in  taking  a  wife, 
and  I  was  married  Nov.  8,  1842  to  your  mother  at  the  Hot 
Springs,  Va.,  our  engagement  having  lasted  over  three  years. 
I  returned  home  at  once  only  stopping  long  enough  in  lower 
Virginia  to  show  my  wife,  of  whom  I  was  justly  proud  and 
whose  superior  I  have  never  met,  to  my  relatives  and  friends 
there. 

"We  settled  first  in  Griffin,  Ga.,  where  David  Clopton,  Robert 
Lanier  and  myself,  all  newly  married,  lived  together.  We  sub- 
sequently bought  a  double  log  cabin  in  Griffin,  one  end  of  which 
we  used  as  our  chamber,  the  other  as  a  kitchen  and  the  space 
was  enclosed  and  made  into  a  dining  room.  I  daubed  the  outside 
with  my  own  hands,  and  your  mother's  good  taste  arranged  the 
interior  so  neatly  and  comfortable  that  to  this  day  I  have  never 
had  a  home  more  to  my  satisfaction.  While  living  at  Griffin 
I  put  on  a  stage  line  between  that  place  and  Franklin,  Ala.,  to 
connect  the  Central  &  Monroe  R.  R.  with  the  Montgomery  and 
West  Point,  now  the  Western  Railroad  of  Alabama.  It  was  a 
losing  venture  and  in  order  to  settle  the  loss  I  had  to  sell  my 
little  home  in  GrifFin.  Collecting  the  money  I  placed  it  in  the 
hands  of  a  road  agent  named  Bramin,  who,  instead  of  applying 
it  to  the  payment  of  my  debts,  decamped  with  my  money  to  parts 
unknown,  and  I  have  never,  from  that  day  to  this,  heard  any- 
thing of  him.  I  was  consequently  obliged  to  part  with  my  stage 
line,  the  Central  R.  R.  &  Banking  Co.  generously  dividing  the 
loss  with  me,  on  the  ground  that  the  line  was  started  chiefly  in 
their  interests  and  they  felt  unwilling  that  the  whole  loss  should 
fall  on  me.  My  own  road,  the  Monroe  R.  R.,  now  the  Macon 
&  Western,  would  have  paid  her  proportion,  but  the  company 
was  then  insolvent  and  unable  to  pay  me  the  amount  due  for 
services  as  engineer. 

''It  was  about  these  times  that  you  were  born  at  the  house  of 
our  special  friend,  L.  N.  Whittle  and  wife,  in  Vineville,  Ga.,  a 
suburb  of  Macon,  Ga.  Our  families  had  been  friends  in  Vir- 
ginia and  our  friendship  had  strengthened  with  increasing  years. 

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The  kind  and  considerate  attention  showed  by  Mrs.  Whittle  sup- 
plied the  place  of  those  usually  shown  by  tender  mothers  to 
daughters  under  the  trying  circumstances  of  a  first  confinement 
and  I  shall  ever  remember  with  sentiments  of  the  liveliest  grati- 
tude the  delicate  kindness  of  the  Whittles  and  need  not,  I 
know^  enjoin  on  you  payment  in  any  manner  in  which  you  can 
this  debt  of  gratitude.  Your  own  generous  heart  would  prompt 
the  act.  When  you  were  able  to  bear  the  trip  we  moved  to  a 
little  place  on  the  railroad  then  called  Leekville^  about  half  way 
between  Griffin  and  Atlanta,  but  now  Jonesboro,  the  name  hav- 
ing been  changed  as  a  compliment  to  myself.  (Knight's  "Ga. 
Landmarks,  Memorials  and  Legends"  1:450).  At  that  time  I 
was  engaged  in  rebuilding  the  road  between  Macon  and  Atlanta, 
the  old  Monroe  R.  R.  having  been  sold  out  under  a  decree  of  the 
courts,  and  when  it  was  completed  to  Atlanta  I  moved  there  on 
the  promise  of  being  made  agent  and  the  prospect  of  being  able 
to  settle  down  with  my  little  family.  Capt.  Dan.  Tyler,  then 
president  of  the  railroad,  forgot  his  promise  and  gave  the  agency 
at  Atlanta  to  someone  else  and  I,  soon  after,  was  engaged  as 
Principal  Asst.  Engineer  of  Mr.  Daniel  Griffin  and  engaged  in 
making  a  survey  and  location  of  a  railroad  between  Columbus. 
Ga.,  and  Burnsville,  a  station  on  the  Macon  &  Western  Railroad 
forty  miles  above  Macon — a  road  that  never  was,  but  ought  to 
have  been  built. 

"It  was  soon  after  our  removal  to  Atlanta  that  your  sister 
Mary  was  born,  so  that  my  two  oldest  children  are  Georgians. 
In  the  spring  of  '48  I  was  employed  by  Chas.  F.  M.  Garnett, 
then  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Nashville  &  Chattanooga  R.  R.  as 
assistant  engineer.  I  went  to  Tennessee  in  May,  conducting  a 
survey  from  Nashville  to  Shelbyville  and  from  Shelbyville  back 
to  Murfreesboro  and  locating  the  main  line  of  the  N.  &  C.  from 
the  Barren  Fork  of  the  Duck  to  the  foot  of  the  Cumberland 
mountains.  It  was  while  engaged  in  this  location  that  I  was  in- 
vited back  to  Georgia,  by  Major  Jack  Howard,  of  Columbus, 
Ga.,  who  had  suceeded  Jno.  G.  Winter  as  President  of  the 
Muscogee  Railroad.  As  the  salary  offered  me  was  larger  by 
$800.00  than  I  was  receiving  in  Tennessee  and  the  position 
higher,  I  accepted  Major  Howard's  offer  and  returned  to  Geor- 

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gia^  assuming  the  duties  of  chief  engineer  of  the  Muscogee  in  the 
fall  of  1848.  I  left  Tennessee  reluctantly.  The  climate^  soil 
and  people  all  delighted  me  and  I  had  resolved  to  make  Mur- 
freesboro  my  permanent  home  when  I  was  induced,  for  the  rea- 
sons above  given^  to  return  to  Georgia,  making  Columbus  head- 
quarters. Your  mother,  who  spent  the  summer  of  1848  at  the 
Hot  Springs^  joined  me  late  in  the  fall.  We  spent  the  winter  in 
Columbus,  but  in  the  Spring  of  1849  removed  to  Summerville, 
situated  on  the  sand  hills  on  the  Alabama  side  of  the  river  three 
or  four  miles  above  the  city,  the  move  being  made  on  account 
of  the  health  of  your  sister,  with  whom  the  damp  atmosphere 
of  the  falls  disagreed.  In  the  Spring  of  1849  I  was  offered  the 
position  of  Engineer  on  the  Montgomery  and  West  Point  R.  R. 
by  Col.  Pollard,  then  president,  but  Major  Howard  declining 
to  give  me  up,  a  compromise  was  made  and  it  was  arranged  that 
my  time  should  be  divided  between  the  ^luscogee  and  the 
Mtgy.  &  W.  P.  which  was  then  done  to  Opelika.  The  next  year 
Mr.  Pollard  said  he  would  prefer  giving  me  an  increased  salary 
and  having  my  whole  time,  and  as  the  Muscogee  was  well  under 
way,  I  consented  to  go  to  Montgomery  and  moved  there  with 
my  family  in  April  1850." 

SAMUELS  GOODE  JOXES'  wife,  who  was  also  his  first 
cousin,  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Goode.  of  Hot 
Springs,  Bath  Co.,  Va.,  and  was  named  Martha  Ward  Goode. 
Dr.  Goode  was  b.  1780-90  and  died  in  1858.  On  January  31, 
1816  he  married  Mary  Ann  Knox.  Martha  W.  Goode,  who  was 
b.  Jan.  17,  1821,  was  of  the  ninth  generation  from  Pocahontas — 
the  line  being  as  follows : 

I.  Pocahontas,  daughter  of  the  mighty  Powhatan  (d.  1618), 
married  Master  John  Rolfe,  in  the  Church  at  Jamestown  in 
April,  1613,  and  died  at  Gravesend,  Eng.,  March  21,  1616,  leav- 
ing an  only  son 

II.  Thomas  Rolfe,  b.  1615,  who  as  Lieut.  Rolfe  commanded 
Ft.  James  on  the  Chicahominey.  He  married  Jane  Poythress 
(Poyers)  and  left  an  only  daughter 

III.  Jane  Rolfe,  b.  1655-6  d.  1676.  She  married  in  1675 
Colonel  Robert  Boiling,  b.  Dec.  20,  1646,  d.  July  17,  1709.  He 
was  a  vestry-man  of  old  Blandford  Church  and  his  home  was 

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called  'Kippax'  or  Farmingdale.  He  was  a  son  of  John  and 
Mary  Boiling  of  the  Boilings  of  'Boiling  Hall/  near  Bradford, 
Yorkshire,  Eng.    Their  only  son 

IV.  Major  John  Boiling,  b.  Jan.  27,  1676  married  Mary 
Kennon  and  died  Apl.  20,  1729.    Their  sixth  child  and  daughter 

V.  Ann  Boiling,  b.  1718  married  in  1746  James  Murray,  a 
native  of  Scotland  and  a  church-warden  and  vestryman  of  Bris- 
tol (Va.)  Parish.    Their  daughter 

VI.  Mary  Murray,  b.  Feb.  22,  1754;  d.  1823,  married  (first) 
Alexander  Gordon,  of  Petersburg,  Va.,  and  a  native  of  Scotland. 
Their  daughter 

VII.  Peggy  Gordon  married  (first)  William  Knox,  of  Phila- 
delphia, who  d.  in  1809  at  Petersburg  and  their  daughter 

VIII.  Mary  Ann  Knox,  wife  of  Dr.  Thos.  Goode,  was  the 
mother  of  Martha  Ward  Goode,  wife  of  Samuel  Goode  Jones. 

"Mrs.  Martha  Ward  Jones  was  exceeding  beautiful  in  person, 
and  of  strong,  but  nicely  balanced  and  judiciously  educated  in- 
tellectual faculties;  she  was  also  endowed  with  such  loving  and 
lovely  affections  and  qualities  of  heart,  that  up  to  the  hour  when 
she  left  her  father's  house  as  a  married  woman,  she  had  been 
from  a  child  a  source  of  joy  and  happiness  unalloyed  by  a  single 
wilful  act  of  disobedience  or  the  development  of  a  single  un- 
lovely characteristic.  Sensitively  shrinking  from  observation  and 
notoriety  and  indiscriminate  social  intercouse,  she  sought  and 
had,  comparatively,  few  intimate  friends;  but  to  those  few,  of 
like  refinement  and  congenial  tastes,  she  revealed,  in  every  re- 
lation of  life,  an  harmonious  assemblage  and  combination  of 
natural  attractions  and  Christian  graces,  which  was  as  beautiful 
as  it  is  rare,  and  they  will  remember  her  as  a  model  of  all  that 
constitutes  female  loveliness."     (Church  Intelligencer.) 

Mrs.  Jones  was  a  mother  of  eight  children,  and  those  sur- 
viving early  childhood  are:  (a)  Thomas  Goode;  q.  v.  (b)  Mary 
Virginia,  born  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Apl.  6,  1847;  married  William 
Gesner,  a  skilled  chemist  and  geologist  who  died  at  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  in  1887;  (c)  Lucy  Spottswood,  b.  at  Montgomery,  Aug.  3, 
1851;  married  Francis  Henry  Armstrong,  Nov.  24,  1869.  She 
died  at  Sewanee,  Feb.  4,  1879,  leaving  issue:  (i)  Samuel  J. 
Armstrong,  b.  Oct.  18,  1870  who  married  Mattie  Register  of 

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MARTHA  WARD  (GOODE)  JONES 


Tenn.  They  have  two  children  Francis  Henry  and  Mabel;  (ii) 
Martha  Ward  Armstrong,  b.  Jan.  16;,  1872,  unmarried;  (iii) 
Mary  Coleman  Armstrong,  b.  Oct.  19,  1874;  married  Robert 
Ewing,  of  Birmingham,  Ala.,  and  has  one  son  Robt.  Ewing,  Jr. ; 
(iv)  Aurora  Elmore  Armstrong,  b.  Jan.  24,  1878,  unmarried; 
(d)  Edwin  Francis,  q.  v.;  (e)  Carter,  born  at  Montgomery, 
March  19,  1855,  m.  Louellen  Calloway  on  Nov.  18,  1905.  No 
issue,    (f)  Charles  Pollard,  q.  v. 

Samuel  G.  Jones  first  lived  (in  Montgomery)  on  the  SE  cor- 
ner of  Columbus  and  Lawrence  Sts.,  but  in  1852  he  moved  to  the 
home  on  the  corner  of  Perry  and  Columbus  Sts.  and  here  he 
lived  until  his  removal  in  1867  to  Yongesboro,  Lee  County,  x'Vla. 
In  1877  he  removed  to  Sewanee,  Tenn.  for  the  two-fold  pur- 
pose of  educating  the  children  of  his  second  marriage  and  on 
account  of  his  impaired  health  to  obtain  the  benefit  of  the  salu- 
brious mountain  climate. 

Mr.  Jones  was  one  of  the  pioneer  railroad  builders  of  the 
South  and  a  civil  engineer  of  distinguished  attainments.  He 
surveyed  the  Nashville  &  Chattanooga  R.  R.  in  Tennessee;  the 
Montgomery  &  West  Point  R.  R.,  becoming  its  superintendent 
later;  the  Savannah  &  Memphis  R.  R.,  of  which  he  became  pres- 
ident in  1867.  In  1856  he  was  chief  engineer  of  the  ^Alabama 
&  Florida  and  was  also  chief  engineer  of  the  Western  Railroad 
from  Montgomery  to  Selma.  While  President  of  the  S.  &  M. 
railroad  he  resigned  because  he  declined  to  swear,  as  the  directors 
of  the  road  desired  to  conform  to  the  State  Aid  Laws,  that  the 
first  twenty  miles  of  the  road  had  been  built  from  its  own  re- 
sources and  not  with  funds  derived  from  the  sale  of  bonds  of 
the  road.  Later  he  became  connected  with  this  road  again  as 
chief  engineer,  but  when  pressed  by  the  directors  not  to  give  the 
exact  facts  known  to  him  in  an  investigation  then  pending  he 
again  resigned,  altho  the  salary,  his  fortune  having  been  shat- 
tered by  the  War,  was  a  matter  of  great  moment  to  him. 

"Suffice  it  to  say  he  never  brought 
His  conscience  to  the  public  mart. 
But  lived  himself  the  truth  he  taught, 
"WTiite-souled,  clean-handed,  pure  of  heart." 

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For  many  years  railroad  connection  with  the  Gulf  and  Mobile 
and  the  opening  up  of  the  vast  country  south  of  Montgomery 
with  the  "wealth  of  a  kingdom  locked  in  its  virgin  fastnesses" 
was  a  topic  of  interest^  but  the  first  steps  in  that  direction  of  a 
practical  nature  were  not  taken  until  1853.  The  big  brain  and 
quick  perception  of  Samuel  G.  Jones  saw  the  stupendous  pos- 
sibilities of  the  opportunity  and  with  marvellous  energy  he  trav- 
elled over  a  great  section  of  the  country  talking  railroads  and 
development  until  finally  he  imbued  with  some  of  his  own  en- 
thusiasm men  with  sufficient  capital  to  make  the  railroad  of  his 
dreams  a  reality.  A  meeting  of  the  stock-holders  of  the  new 
road — The  Alabama  &  Florida — was  held  and  Mr.  Jones  was 
elected  Chief  Engineer.  In  the  early  part  of  1858  the  work  of 
construction  began  and  before  the  end  of  1862  Mr.  Jones  had  his 
road  through  to  a  connection  with  Pensacola,  one  hundred  and 
twenty  miles  from  Montgomery.  This  road  proved  a  veritable 
Godsend  to  the  Confederate  forces  operating  in  that  section  of 
the  country  and  was  especially  helpful  to  the  Confederate  navy 
yard  at  Pensacola  in  the  transportation  of  supplies. 

About  this  time  Mr.  Jones  became  interested  in  a  projected 
road  to  tap  the  rich  section  of  country  lying  between  Montgom- 
ery and  Selma.  He  also  made  a  success  of  this  road  and  before 
1866  the  road  was  completed  to  Selma.  The  great  wealth  which 
later  poured  in  upon  the  merchants  of  Montgomery  all  sprang 
from  the  little  roads  started  by  Col.  Chas.  T.  Pollard  in  1854 
and  Mr.  Jones  in  1857.  Among  the  many  eminent  railroad  men 
who  began  their  careers  under  Mr.  Jones  may  be  mentioned  the 
late  Samuel  Spencer^,  President  of  the  Southern  Railroad. 

Samuel  G.  Jones  was  one  of  the  poineers  in  the  industrial  de- 
velopment of  central  Alabama.  He  was  the  chief  organizer  of 
the  Chewalca  Lime  Works,  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Mont- 
gomery &  Talladega  Sulphur  Mines  which  were  opened  just 
before  the  Civil  War  and  which  the  Confederate  Government 
afterwards  utilized  in  the  manufacture  of  sulphur  and  he  was 
largely  interested  in  the  Muscogee  Lumber  Co. 

Mr.  Jones  was  deeply  religious  by  birth  and  inclination  and 
was  a  devoted  and  genuinely  consistent  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  giving  lavishly  of  his  time  and  means  towards  its  sup- 

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port.  The  first  church  service  held  by  the  Episcopalians  of 
Atlanta  was  held  in  his  home  and  was  the  beginning  of  the  pre- 
sent St.  Luke's  Parish.  The  Rev.  W.  C.  Whittaker,  in  his  His- 
tory of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Alabama^  1763-1891, 
referring  to  some  of  the  splendid  personalities  among  the  lay- 
men of  the  Church  in  Alabama,  during  the  ministrations  of 
Bishops  Cobbs  and  Wilmer,  says:  "Yet  six  men  must  be  named, 
in  passing,  to  ignore  whom  were  to  ignore  six  of  the  strongest 
pillars  of  the  Diocese"and  thus  refers  to  Mr.  Jones:  "Samuel  G. 
Jones,  a  foundation  stone  of  Hamner  Hall  and  of  the  original 
church  of  the  Holy  Comforter."  He  was  ardent  in  his  efforts 
to  organize  and  support  the  University  of  the  South,  at  Se- 
wanee,  Tenn.,  and  was  one  of  the  principal  laymen  who  aided  in 
establishing  it.  He  was  the  chief  donor  of  the  fourteen  acres  of 
land  and  building  for  Hamner  Hall  and  a  liberal  contributor 
for  Bishop  Cobb's  Home  for  Orphan  Children.  He  also  gave 
generously  to  the  building  of  St.  John's  Church  at  Montgomery 
and  was  one  of  her  vestrymen  from  1852-62,  when  he  gave  the 
church  building  on  Perry  Street,  opposite  the  present  First 
Baptist  Church  to  the  parish  of  the  Holy  Comforter,  which  was 
established  to  give  a  parish  to  his  friend  Rev.  Jackson  Scott, 
who  had  left  Pensacola  when  that  place  was  occupied  by  the 
Union  soldiers.  Mr.  Jones  used  to  say  that,  looking  backwards, 
his  donations  to  hospitals,  churches  and  schools  were  the  greatest 
savings  he  ever  made,  and  he  was  thankful  that  the  War  could 
not  depreciate  or  destroy  the  investment.  The  petition  in  the 
litany  of  the  Episcopal  Church  for  the  "fatherless  children  and 
widows  and  all  who  are  desolate  and  oppressed"  impressed  him 
deeply  and  it  was  his  constant  endeavor  to  make  his  life  and  con- 
duct square  with  this  prayer.  Sympathetic  and  tender  hearted 
in  his  nature,  the  sorrows  and  distresses  of  others  moved  him 
deeply  and  his  purse  was  ever  open  to  the  needy  and  quick  to 
relieve  the  suffering.  He  was  very  modest  and  retiring  in  his 
disposition  with  an  humbler  estimate  of  his  worth  than  his  merit 
would  well  warrant. 

In  politics  he  was  an  old  line  Whig,  becoming  a  Democrat 
upon  the  disbandment  of  the  former  party.    He  always  voted 


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and  never  neglected  his  civic  duties.  He  represented  Lee  County 
in  the  lower  house  of  the  Alabama  Legislature  1872-4  and  was 
greatly  respected  for  his  ability^  industry  and  fairness. 

Though  not  a  Secessionist^,  he  thought  secession  justifiable 
and  essential  to  the  honor  of  his  state  and  he  became  ardent  in 
his  support  of  the  Confederate  government  and  gave  generously 
of  his  time  and  means  to  the  cause.  At  one  time  the  greater  part 
of  his  residence  was  converted  into  a  hospital  for  wounded 
Confederates. 

No  man  ever  dealt  more  kindly  with  his  slaves.  He  never  sold 
one  of  his  own  and  oftentimes,  at  the  instance  of  husbands  and 
wives,  he  would  buy  slaves  to  prevent  a  separation.  His  slaves 
worshipped  him  and  seemed  never  more  content  than  when  per- 
forming some  service  for  him.  On  one  occasion  a  slave  (Sarah 
Ann)  whom  he  had  carried  North  with  him  as  a  nurse,  ran  away 
and  Mr.  Jones  had  to  return  home  without  her.  Afterwards  he 
received  a  pitiful  appeal  from  her  for  aid  in  getting  back  to 
him  and  his  family.  And  Mr.  Jones  sent  her  the  money  to  re- 
turn. 

Mrs.  Jones  died  at  Montgomery  on  Aug.  2,  1861  and  on  the 
sixteenth  of  October,  the  year  following,  Mr.  Jones  married 
Aurora  Serena  Elmore,  dau.  of  Benjamin  T.  and  Sarah  A. 
(Brevard)  Elmore.  Mrs.  Jones'  mother  was  a  daughter  of 
Joseph  Brevard,  the  celebrated  statesman,  lawyer,  soldier  and 
jurist  of  South  Carolina  and  a  brother  of  Judge  Brevard  was  the 
author  of  the  famous  Mecklenburg  Declaration.  She  was  a 
woman  of  beautiful  character,  esteemed  and  loved  by  all  for  the 
purity  and  sincerity  of  her  life.  Mrs.  Jones  died  at  Montgom- 
ery, June  14,  1912,  and  is  buried  beside  Mr.  Jones  at  Sewanee, 
Tenn. 

Mr.  Jones  was  the  father  of  seven  children  by  his  second  mar- 
riage, all  of  whom  were  boys,  the  eldest  dying  in  infancy.  Those 
still  living  are:  1.  Samuel  Goode,  b.  at  Montgomery,  Nov.  19. 
1865.  He  is  a  major  in  the  United  States  Army.  Married  Mrs. 
Lucy  Clayton  Gilbert,  dau.  of  Gen.  Powell  Clayton,  at  Ft.  Reno, 
I.  T.  May  22,  1893.  2.  Joseph  Brevard,  b.  at  Montgomery, 
Feb.  10,  1867,  and  graduated  at  the  University  of  the  South, 


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Sewanee^  Tenn.  with  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1888.  He 
is  a  lawyer  and  for  a  great  number  of  years  has  held  the  respon- 
sible position  of  Tax  Agent  for  the  L.  &  N.  R.  R.  He  is  a  vestry- 
man of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Comforter;  married  on  Dec.  10. 
1912^  Annie  May^  dau.  of  Joseph  W.  and  Annie  (Savage)  Dim- 
mick,  3.  Jackson  Scott,  b.  at  Yongesboro,  Ala.,  July  14,  1868. 
4.  George  Mason,  b.  at  Yongesboro,  July  17,  1870.  5.  Frank- 
lin Elmore,  b.  at  Yongesboro,  July  18,  1872.  He  resides  in 
San  Juan,  P.  R.  where  he  is  engaged  in  stenographic  work  and 
stock  raising.  6.  Edward  Elmore,  b.  at  Yongesboro,  Dec.  18, 
1873. 

While  at  Sewanee  Mr.  Jones  served  four  years  as  Treasurer 
of  the  University  of  the  South  and  also  engaged  in  coal  mining. 
Later,  with  Gen.  Kirby  Smith  and  others  he  organized  a  Summer 
Resort  Hotel  Co.  and  was  engaged  in  the  management  of  the 
hotel  property  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Mr.  Jones,  was  a  brother  of  John  Ravenscroft  Jones,  of 
Lawrenceville,  Brunswick  County,  Va.,  who  was  b.  Aug.  21, 
1818  and  married  Dec.  11,  1839,  Mary  J.,  dau.  of  Col.  William 
&  Margaret  W.  Rice.  John  R.  Jones'  maternal  grandmother 
was  a  sister  of  the  first  wife  of  Bishop  Ravenscroft.  After 
graduating  from  Williams  (Mass.)  College  he  became  assistant 
to  the  principal  of  Brunswick  Academy.  Later,  abandoning 
teaching,  he  took  up  agriculture  and  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent figures  in  the  agricultural  councils  of  the  State.  He  was  a 
leading  citizen  of  his  county,  a  member  of  the  old  court  of 
magistrates,  superintendent  of  the  poor,  and  superintendent  of 
schools.  Mr.  Jones  was  not  only  a  man  of  great  intelligence, 
but  of  the  highest  character  and  most  incorruptible  integrity. 
He  was  a  man  of  decided  and  positive  convictions,  and  at  all 
times  and  on  all  occasions  had  the  courage  to  assert  and  defend 
them  regardless  of  popular  clamor.  He  was  a  devoted  member 
of  the  Episcopal  Church  and  in  all  that  pertained  to  its  welfare 
he  took  an  active  and  conspicuous  part. 

Mr.  Jones  was  killed  in  the  8Srd  year  of  his  age  while  try- 
ing to  subdue  an  infuriated  bull.  He  has  a  son,  Ravenscroft 
Jones,  and  many  descendants  living  at  Edgerton,  Va.  Another 
brother  was  Edwin  Burwell  Jones,  of  Nottoway  Co.,  Va.,  an 

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honored  and  esteemed  physician  who  later  became  an  Episcopal 
clergyman. 

Friends  and  neighbors  having  pressed  Samuel  G.  Jones  to  be- 
come a  candidate  for  the  General  Assembly  of  Tennessee,  he 
entered  the  canvass.  During  the  political  campaign  which  fol- 
lowed he  was  accused  by  his  opponents,  who  knew  of  his  great 
wealth  in  times  gone  by,  of  sympathy  with  the  higher  classes  and 
indifference  to  the  poor  and  their  efforts  to  help  themselves  up. 
Refuting  this  charge,  in  what  proved  to  be  his  last  address  to 
his  friends  and  neighbors,  at  Winchester,  Tenn.  on  October  4th, 
1886,  he  narrated  his  early  struggles,  his  success  in  middle  age, 
and  the  disasters  which  came  upon  him  from  the  War  and  said: 
"I  am  in  favor  of  raising  the  lower  classes  to  a  level  with  the 
higher,  by  education  and  kindly  sympathy,  rather  than  by 
bringing  all  to  the  lower  level  and  while  it  is  true  that  I  favor 
levelling  society  when  I  begin  I  want  to  level  men  up — not 
down."  This  noble  sentiment  which  he  ever  exemplified  in  his 
life  was  the  last  that  passed  his  lips.  A  moment  later  the  silver 
chord  was  loosed — the  golden  bowl  broken: 

"God's  finger  touched  him  and  he  slept." 

His  funeral  was  held  from  the  University  Chapel  at  Sewanee 
and  was  largely  attended  by  all  classes ;  the  rich  and  the  poor, 
the  high  and  the  low,  and  all  deeply  mourned  the  passing  of 
this  splendid  Christian  gentleman. 

"Again  a  prince  has  fallen  in  the  fight — 

The  val'rous  champion  of  the  truth  and  right; 

Determined,  honest,  level-headed,  just. 

Who  broke  no  promise  nor  betrayed  a  trust ! 

His  genial  face  with  courtly  kindness  beamed — 

By  friends  beloved,  by  all  mankind  esteemed. 

Peace  to  his  manly  soul  and  sweetest  rest 

With  that  glad  throng  whom  love  of  God  has  blest!" 

THOMAS^  GOODE  JONES,  28th  Governor  of  Alabama,  Con- 
federate soldier  and  United  States  District  Judge,  is  the  oldest 
son  of  SamueF  Goode  and  Martha  W.  Goode  Jones  and  was  born 


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SAMUEL  GOODE  JONES 


at  Vineville  (now  a  suburb  of  Macon_,  Ga.)  in  the  house  of  his 
father's  intimate  friend,  L.  N.  Whittle,  on  November  26,  1844. 

In  1850  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Montgomery,  Alabama, 
where  he  has  resided  continuously  ever  since.  After  a  course 
in  the  private  school  of  Henry  Hotz,  and  Metcher  and  Mc- 
Whorter  and  in  the  school  of  Dr.  Chas.  Minor,  near  Charlottes- 
ville, Va.,  and  Dr.  Gesner  Harrision's,  in  the  fall  of  1860  he 
entered  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  where  ''Stonewall"  Jack- 
son was  then  a  professor.  The  Civil  War  being  assured  in  1861, 
Gov.  Letcher  ordered  the  cadets  to  Richmond  where  young 
Jones  served  as  a  drill-master  of  recruits  for  the  Confederate 
Army.  He  returned  to  the  Institute  in  January  1862  and  was 
given  a  diploma  as  an  honorary  graduate.  This  same  year  he 
joined  General  Jackson's  army  and  took  part  in  the  movement 
against  Banks. 

At  the  end  of  the  campaign  he  enlisted  in  an  organization 
which  later  became  Co.  K.,  Capt.  A.  C.  Felder,  53  Alabama 
Partisan  Rangers,  Col.  M.  W.  Hannon,  and  was  appointed  first 
sergeant.  While  serving  with  the  53rd  Alabama,  Gov.  Thos. 
H.  Watts,  then  Attorney  General  of  the  Confederacy,  brought 
his  merits  to  the  attention  of  Gen.  John  B.  Gordon,  enclosing 
with  his  letter  a  recommendation  which  "Stonewall"  Jackson, 
who  had  been  young  Jones'  professor  at  the  V.  M.  I.  had  given 
him,  and  Gen.  Gordon  on  Jan.  2,  1863  appointed  him  1st  Lieu- 
tenant and  A.  D.  C.  Serving  on  the  staff  of  that  officer  he 
participated  in  all  the  great  operations  of  the  Army  of  Northern 
Virginia  after  the  Battle  of  Fredricksburg.  He  was  wounded 
at  the  Battles  of  Spottsylvania  C.  H.,  2nd  Kernstown,  Hare's 
Hill  and  at  Thompson's  Station  where  for  a  time  he  commanded 
a  battalion  and  though  wounded  refused  to  quit  the  field. 
(Whetstone's  History  of  53rd  Ala.  Regt.,  Montgomery  Adver- 
tiser.) He  was  commended  for  conspicuous  gallantry  at  the 
battles  of  Cedar  Creek  and  Bristoe's  Station  and  promoted  to 
Major,  and  at  the  Battle  of  Hare's  Hill  received  the  personal 
thanks  of  Robert  E.  Lee  for  volunteering  to  carry  orders,  in 
the  face  of  a  terrible  fire  from  the  enemy,  for  the  withdrawal  of 
the  Confederate  forces  from  Ft.  Steadman.    The  following  in- 


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cident  is  related  of  Major  Jones  by  Gen.  John  B.  Gordon  in 
his  "Reminiscences  of  the  Civil  War/'  at  pp.  112-3:  "After  the 
battle  of  Sharpsburg;,  there  was  sent  to  me  as  an  aid  on  my  staff 
a  very  young  soldier^  a  mere  stripling.  He  was  at  that  awk- 
ward^ gawky  age  through  which  all  boys  seem  to  pass.  He  bore 
a  letter^  however,  from  the  Hon.  Thos.  H.  Watts,  who  was 
the  Attorney  General  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  who  assured 
me  that  this  lad  had,  in  him  all  the  essentials  of  a  true  sildier. 
It  was  not  long  before  I  found  that  Mr.  Watts  had  not  mistaken 
the  mettle  of  his  young  friend,  Thomas  G.  Jones.  Late  one 
evening,  near  sunset,  I  directed  Jones  to  carry  a  message  for 
me  to  Gen.  Lee  or  to  any  immediate  superior.  The  route  was 
through  pine  thickets  and  dim  roads  or  paths  not  easily  followed. 
The  Union  pickets  were  posted  at  certain  points  in  these  woods; 
but  Jones  felt  that  he  could  go  through  safely.  Alone  on 
horseback  he  started  on  his  hazardous  ride.  Darkness  overtook 
him  before  he  had  emerged  from  the  pine  thicket,  and  he  rode 
into  a  body  of  Union  pickets  supposing  them  to  be  Confederates. 
There  were  six  men,  on  that  post.  They  seized  the  bridle  of 
Jones's  horse,  levelled  their  rifles  at  him,  and  commanded  him  to 
dismount.  As  there  was  no  alternative,  one  can  imagine  that 
Jones  was  not  slow  in  obeying  the  order.  His  captors  were 
evidently  new  recruits,  for  they  neglected  to  deprive  him  of 
the  six-shooter  at  his  belt.  Jones  even  then  had  in  him  the  ora- 
torical power  which  afterward  won  for  him  distinction  at  the 
bar  and  helped  to  make  him  governor  of  the  great  State  of 
Alabama.  He  soon  engaged  his  captors  in  the  liveliest  conver- 
sation, telling  them  anecdotes  and  deeply  enlisting  their  interest 
in  his  stories.  The  night  was  cold,  and  before  daylight,  Jones 
proposed  to  the  'boys'  that  they  should  make  a  fire  as  there  was 
no  reason  for  shivering  in  the  cold  with  plenty  of  pine  sticks 
around  them.  The  suggestion  was  at  once  accepted,  and  Jones 
hegan  to  gather  sticks.  The  men,  unwilling  for  him  to  do  all 
the  work,  laid  down  their  guns  and  began  to  share  in  their  labor. 
Jones  saw  his  opportunity,  and  burning  with  mortification  at  his 
failure  to  carry  through  my  message,  he  leaped  to  the  pile  of 
guns,  drew  his  revolver,  and  said  to  the  men:    'I  can  kill  every 


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one  of  TOii  before  you  can  get  to  me.  Fall  into  line.  I  will  put 
a  bullet  through  the  first  man  who  moves  toward  me !'  He  de- 
livered those  six  prisioners  at  my  headquarters."  At  page  277 
speaking  of  the  fight  at  Spottsylvania.  Gen.  Gordon  says: 
"When  the  daring  charge  of  the  Xorth  Carolina  brigade  had  tem- 
porarily checked  that  portion  of  the  Federal  forces  struck  by  it^ 
and  while  my  brigades  in  the  rear  were  being  placed  in  position. 
I  rode  with  Thomas  G.  Jones,  the  youngest  member  of  my  staff, 
into  the  intervening  woods,  in  order,  if  possible,  to  locate  Han- 
cock more  definitely.  Sitting  on  my  horse  near  the  line  of  the 
North  Carolina  brigade,  I  was  endeavoring  to  get  a  view  of  the 
Union  lines,  through  the  woods  and  the  gradually  lifting  mists. 
It  was  impossible,  however,  to  see  those  lines ;  but,  as  stated,  the 
direction  from  which  they  sent  their  bullets  soon  informed  us 
that  they  were  still  moving  and  had  already  gone  beyond  our 
right.  One  of  those  bullets  passed  through  my  coat  from  side 
to  side,  just  grazing  my  back.  Jones,  who  was  close  to  me, 
and  sitting  on  his  horse  in  not  a  very  erect  posture,  anxiously 
inquired:  'General,  didn't  that  ball  hit  you?' 

"  *No,'  I  said,  'but  suppose  my  back  had  been  in  a  bow  like 
yours  ?  Don't  you  see  that  the  bullet  would  have  gone  straight 
through  my  spine      Sit  up  or  you  will  be  killed.' 

"The  sudden  jerk  with  which  he  straightened  himself,  and  the 
duration  of  the  impression  made,  showed  that  this  ocular  dem- 
onstration of  the  necessity  for  a  soldier  to  sit  upright  on  his  horse 
had  been  more  effective  than  all  the  ordinary  lessons  that  could 
have  been  given.  It  is  but  simple  justice  to  say  of  this  im- 
mature boy  that  even  then  his  courage,  his  coolness  in  the  pres- 
cence  of  danger,  and  his  strong  moral  and  mental  character- 
istics gave  promise  of  his  brilliant  future."  And  at  page  352, 
Gen.  Gordon  says:  "Thomas  G.  Jones,  since  Governor  of  Ala- 
bama and  now  judge  of  the  United  States  Court,  was  then  (Ce- 
dar Creek,  Oct.  1864)  an  aide  on  my  staff,  and  sat  on  his  horse 
at  my  side  when  Gen.  Early  announced  that  we  had  had 
'glory  enough  for  one  day.'  Boy  soldier  as  he  was  then,  he  felt 
and  expressed  serious  forebodings  of  the  disaster  which  was  to 
follow  in  the  wake  of  our  great  victory."  In  relating  the  capture 


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of  Fort  Steadman,  Gen.  Gordon  tells  the  following  incident  at 
page  412  of  his  Reminscences :  "When  the  retreat  to  our  works 
had  ended,  a  report  reached  me  that  an  entire  Confederate  Regi- 
ment had  not  received  the  order  to  withdraw,  and  was  still  stand- 
ing in  the  Union  Breastworks,  bravely  fighting.  It  was  necessary 
to  send  them  orders  or  leave  them  to  their  fate.  I  called  my 
staff  around  me,  and  explained  the  situation  and  the  extreme 
danger  that  the  officer  would  encounter  in  carrying  that  order. 
I  stated  to  them  the  pain  I  experienced  in  sending  one  of  them 
on  so  perilous  a  mission  was  greater  than  I  could  express.  Every 
one  of  them  quickly  volunteered  to  go;  but  Thomas  G.  Jones,  of 
Alabama  insisted  that  as  he  was  the  youngest  and  had  no  special 
responsibilities,  it  should  fall  to  his  lot  to  incur  the  danger. 
I  bade  him  goodbye  with  earnest  prayers  that  God  would  pro- 
tect him,  and  without  an  apparent  tremor  he  rode  away.  A 
portion  of  the  trip  was  through  a  literal  furnace  of  fire,  but  he 
passed  through  it,  both  going  and  returning,  without  a  scratch." 
The  friendship  thus  formed  between  Gen.  Gordon  and  Major 
Jones  grew  stronger  and  more  affectionate  as  the  years  passed  by 
and  was  only  severed  by  the  death  of  the  former  on  Jan.  9,  1904. 
Judge  Jones  attended  the  funeral  of  his  former  chief  and  was  one 
of  those  who  delivered  an  address  at  the  Memorial  Exercises 
in  the  Ga.  State  Capitol  on  the  day  of  Gen.  Gordon's  funeral 
and  at  the  Confederate  Reunion  at  Nashville,  by  appointment 
of  Gen.  Stephen  D.  Lee  commanding  the  Confederate  Veterans, 
Judge  Jones  delivered  the  Memorial  address  and  drafted  the 
resolutions  which  were  later  adopted  by  the  Veterans. 

Brevet  Major-General  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain,  in  a  paper  on 
'APPOMATOX'  read  Oct.  7,  1903,  before  the  Commandery  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of 
the  United  States  (G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1907)  at  page  167 
tells,  in  the  following  beautiful  language  of  the  arrival  of  Major 
Jones  at  his  line  with  a  flag  of  truce  on  that  memorable  morn- 
ing in  April,  1865:  "Suddenly  rose  to  sight  another  form,  close 
in  our  own  front, — a  soldierly  figure,  handsomely  dressed  and 
mounted, — a  Confederate  staff-officer  undoubtedly,  to  whom  some 
of  my  advance  line  seemed  to  be  pointing  my  position.    Now  I 


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THOMAS  GOODE  JONES 
In  1862  as  Lieut,  and  A.  D.  C.  to  Brig.  Gen.  John  B.  Gordon 


see  the  white  flag  earnestly  borne,  and  its  possible  purport 
sweeps  before  my  inner  vision  like  a  wraith  of  morning  mist.  He 
steadily  comes  on_, — the  mysterious  form  in  gray,  my  mood  so 
whimsically  sensitive  that  I  could  even  smile  at  the  material 
of  the  flag, — wondering  where  in  either  army  was  found  a 
towel,  and  one  so  white.  But  it  bore  a  mighty  message, — that 
simple  emblem  of  homely  service,  wafted  hitherward  above  the 
dark  and  crimsoned  streams  that  can  never  wash  themselves 
away. 

"The  messenger  draws  near,  dismounts ;  with  graceful  saluta- 
tion and  hardly  suppressed  emotion  delievers  his  message:  'Sir, 
I  am  from  General  Gordon.  Gen.  Lee  desires  a  cessation  of 
hostilities  until  he  can  hear  from  General  Grant  as  to  the  pro- 
posed surrender.' 

"What  word  is  this !  so  long  so  dearly  fought  for,  so  feverishly 
dreamed,  but  ever  snatched  away,  held  hidden  and  aloof;  now 
smiting  the  senses  with  dizzy  flash !  'Surrender'  We  had  no  ru- 
mor of  this  from  the  messages  that  had  been  passing  between 
Grant  and  Lee,  for  now  these  two  days,  behind  us.  'Surren- 
der.^' It  takes  a  moment  to  gather  one's  speech.  'Sir,'  I  an- 
swer, 'that  matter  exceeds  my  authority.  I  will  send  to  my 
superior.  General  Lee  is  right.  He  can  do  no  more.'  All  this 
with  a  forced  calmness,  covering  a  tumult  of  heart  and  brain.  I 
bid  him  wait  awhile,  and  the  message  goes  up  to  my  corps  com- 
mander. General  Griffin,  leaving  me  amazed  at  the  boding 
change." 

Major  Jones  married  on  Dec.  20,  1866,  Georgena  Caroline 
Bird,  of  Montgomery,  Ala.,  dau.  of  Dr.  Marshall  Henry  and 
Caroline  Moore  Bird.  Mrs.  Jones  was  born  at  Erie,  Greene 
Co.,  (now  Hale)  Alabama,  on  October  9,  1846,  and  on  her  ma- 
ternal side  is  descended  from  the  noted  Moore  family  of  South 
Carolina,  two  of  whose  members  were  governors  of  S.  C,  and 
another  Jas.  Moore,  great  great  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Jones  was 
a  brigadier  general  in  the  American  Army  during  the  Revolu- 
tion. Mrs.  Jones'  maternal  grandmother,  Eliza  I.  Clitherall 
Moore,  was  the  dau.  of  Dr.  Geo.  Campbell  Clitherall,  Surgeon 
U.  S.  A.  and  his  wife  Caroline  Burgwin,  only  daughter  of  John 
Burgwin,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  Clerk  of  the  Colonial  Assembly 

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of  N.  C.J  opulent  merchant  and  one  of  the  foremost  citizens 
of  the  Province  of  North  Carolina. 

After  the  War,  Major  Jones  returned  to  Montgomery  and 
entered  upon  the  business  of  planting  (1866-69)  which  resulted 
disastrously  to  him.  During  his  leisure  moments  when  the  army 
was  in  winter  quarters  and  while  planting  he  had  studied  law 
and  was  one  of  Chief  Justice  A.  J.  Walker's  class  at  Montgom- 
ery and  on  Jan.  9,  1868,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  in  April 
of  that  year  formed  a  partnership  with  Hal.  T.  Walker.  From 
June  to  November,  1868,  he  was  editor  of  the  Daily  Picayune, 
severing  his  connection  with  it  when  his  editorial  duties  began 
to  conflict  with  his  growing  law  practise. 

"The  first  meeting  to  organize  the  Democracy  of  Alabama," 
says  Gen.  Jas.  T.  Holtzclaw,  "in  opposition  to  the  reconstruction 
acts  was  held  in  the  office  of  Stone,  Clopton  &  Clanton  in  1867. 
A  county  committee  of  ten  was  selected,  and  Thomas  G.  Jones 
was  one  of  that  committee  and  throughout  the  trying  times  that 
followed  for  the  next  seven  years,  he  was  always  ready  to  fight 
or  work,  speak  or  write  for  the  Democracy.  When  the  fight 
was  practically  over,  and  our  party  thoroughly  organized  and 
victorious,  he  retired  with  LeGrand  and  others  to  let  the  county 
have  representation  since  the  original  committee  was  entirely 
from  the  city  beats."  Thos.  G.  Jones  took  a  prominent  part  in 
the  events  of  those  exciting  days  and  one  occasion,  during  an 
election,  when  the  City  of  Montgomery  had  been  fired  in  sev- 
eral places  and  it  seemed  that  bloodshed  and  riot  would  follow, 
the  Republican  sheriff  of  Montgomery  County  turned  the  su- 
pervision of  the  election  and  the  preservation  of  order  over  to 
the  Democrats  and  Major  Jones  was  made  chief  deputy  sheriff. 
Order  was  promptly  restored  and  the  election  passed  off  quietly. 

In  1870,  the  Republican  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Ala- 
bama, desiring  to  smooth  tlie  intercourse  between  the  bench  and 
the  bar,  and  to  make  a  graceful  offering  to  the  Democratic  bar, 
upon  its  recommendation  and  nomination  appointed  Major 
Jones  Reporter  of  their  decisions.  In  March  of  that  year  he 
began  his  duties  and  while  serving  reported  sixteen  volumes  of 
decisions.  When  the  Democratic  judges  returned  to  the  bench 
in  1875,  though  there  were  many  applicants  for  the  position  of 


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Reporter,  Major  Jones  was  retained.  Some  of  the  extremists 
of  his  party  desired  his  removal  because  he  had  accepted  the  po- 
sition— a  non-partisan  one — under  the  Republican  judges.  He 
remained  in  the  office  for  ten  years,  when,  to  the  regret  of  bench 
and  bar,  he  resigned  to  devote  his  whole  time  to  his  profession 
in  which  he  had  achieved  great  success. 

Major  Jones  achieved  a  national  reputation  as  an  orator  by 
his  Memorial  Address  delivered  at  Oakwood  Cemetery,  Mont- 
gomery, on  Confederate  Memorial  Day,  April  26,  1874.  This 
address  was  delivered  in  the  presence  of  a  purely  Southern  au- 
dience and  with  no  expectation  of  its  ever  reaching  Northern 
ears.  The  speech  was  full  of  dignity,  and  firm  in  the  vindica- 
tion of  the  Southern  cause,  and  was  a  profound  appeal  to  the 
better  intelligence  of  the  country.  One  paragraph  of  that 
speech  was  copied  in  nearly  every  paper  in  the  United  States, 
and  coming  from  the  Cradle  of  the  Confederacy,  did  much  to 
check  the  tide  of  vindictiveness  which  was  then  rampant  in  many 
sections  of  the  country.  The  paragraph  was  as  follows:  "And 
while  we  ponder  thus,  the  mind  carries  us  northward  where  the 
tombs — not  of  our  dead,  are  whiter  than  the  sands  of  the  sea, 
and  more  numerous  than  the  stars  in  the  heavens.  In  them  lie 
men  of  the  same  race  as  ourselves — who  spoke  the  same  lan- 
guage and  worshipped  the  same  God.  Fond  mothers  sent  them 
to  battle,  and  tender  tears  and  agonizing  prayers  watched  their 
pathway.  They  followed  a  flag  that  was  as  dear  to  them  as 
was  to  us  the  star-crossed  banner  that  has  long  since  taken  its 
flight  to  greet  the  warrior's  soul,  and  he  that  worthily  speaks 
for  the  dead  or  the  living,  must  say,  that  no  feeling  of  hate  to 
the  Northern  dead  or  those  who  mourn  them,  pervades  this 
Memorial  day.  'One  touch  of  pity  makes  the  world  kin.'  From 
scenes  like  this,  where  the  warring  sections  mourn  their  dead, 
let  the  statesman  draw  inspiration  to  guide  the  living." 

This  oration  was  commented  upon  in  all  parts  of  the  United 
States,  by  the  press  and  individuals.  A  few  years  after,  the 
Union  Veterans  assembled  at  Marietta,  O.,  presented  Major 
Jones  with  a  handsome  gold  medal  as  a  token  of  their  apprecia- 
tion of  his  manly  words.  In  accepting  the  present  he  declared 
that  it  had  little  personal  significance  "and  although  the  sol- 

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dier's  hand  has  tendered  me  this  beautiful  gift,  that  hand  is 
reached  out  to  Alabama;  this  generous  greeting  is  not  to  me — 
it  is  the  voice  of  Ohio  speaking  to  Alabama."  Major  Jones  was 
also  the  recipient  of  another  gift.  A  grief-stricken  widow  of  the 
North,  describing  herself  as  "A  Northern  Woman,  Widowed  and 
Bereft  of  Her  Sons  by  the  War,"  sent  him  out  of  the  little  she 
had,  a  handsomely  engraved  silver  cup  "as  a  token  of  her  ap- 
preciation of  the  Soldierly  Words  spoken  in  Kindness  of  the 
Northern  Dead."  In  acknowledging  its  receipt  by  a  letter  to 
the  jewelers  who  sent  the  cup.  Major  Jones  wrote:  "The  valued 
testimonial  ('from  a  lady  who  does  not  desire  her  name  men- 
tioned') sent  by  you  through  the  Ladies'  Memorial  Association 
of  this  city,  has  been  received. 

"The  words  to  which  the  lady  so  kindly  alludes,  it  is  true, 
were  uttered  by  my  lips  on  Memorial  Day,  but  the  thought  welled 
up  spontaneously  from  every  true  heart  which  that  day  mourn- 
ed the  warriors  who  wore  the  gray.  I  gratefully  accept  the 
beautiful  gift  as  a  tribute  to  the  sentiment,  rather  than  any  mere 
compliment  to  myself. 

"No  holier  plea  for  peace  and  reconciliation  could  rise  to 
heaven  or  touch  the  hearts  of  men  than  the  sight  of  a  mother 
'widowed  and  bereft  of  her  sons'  sweetly  communing  in  the  sor- 
rows of  those  who  were  foes  to  her  dead.  Nor  could  there  be 
more  delicate  and  tender  token  of  sympathy  than  where  the 
heart-prompting  Christian  consolation  hides  the  gentle  hand 
which  tenders  it. 

"The  reflection  that  my  words,  mere  echoes  of  every  honest 
Southern  soldier's  feelings,  should  have  fallen  like  a  balm  on 
the  wounded  spirit  of  a  Northern  mother,  bereaved  by  our 
arms,  has  filled  me  with  a  sense  of  intense  gratification — a  grat- 
ification which  could  not  be  heightened  by  any  honors  I  could 
win. 

"God  permitted  the  storm  to  lash  about  us,  and  none  of  either 
section  who  followed  cherished  convictions  into  battle  can  re- 
gret it;  but  we  may  do  much  to  assuage  the  bitterness  of  the 
past.  Nothing  would  give  more  joy  to  the  soldiers  of  the  South 
than  to  heal  all  the  wounds  of  that  unhappy  struggle.'* 

In  1875,  Major  Jones  represented  the  Fourth  Ward  in  the 

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City  Council  of  Montgomery^  being  one  of  the  leaders  selected 
for  the  task  of  redeeming  ^Montgomery  from  the  rule  of  the 
"carpet  baggers  and  reconstructionists."  "The  city  was  in 
debt,  without  credit,  and  staggering  under  many  difficulties  and 
the  successful  conduct  of  its  government  presented  most  of  the 
problems  arising  in  the  larger  affairs  of  the  State.  He  took  a 
laborious  and  prominent  part  in  shaping  and  executing  the  vari- 
ous policies  and  measures  which  finally  rescued  the  city  from 
many  of  its  difficulties,  and  aided  in  restoring  its  credit  and  prop- 
erty. The  city  is  indebted  to  him  for  much  wise  legislation  im- 
proving its  police,  perfecting  its  quarantine  system,  equalizing 
and  lessening  the  burdens  of  taxation  and  improving  its  condi- 
tion."    (Southern  Agriculturist.) 

Col.  Jones  was  twice  elected  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  each 
time  receiving  overwhelming  majorities,  and  on  Nov.  10,  1886, 
was  unanimously  elected  Speaker  of  the  House,  receiving  at  the 
close  of  his  term  "the  profoundest  thanks  of  the  House  for  the 
able  and  efficient  manner  in  which  he  has  presided  over  our 
deliberations  and  for  the  uniformly  courteous  and  gentlemanly 
bearing  extended  to  each  member,  and  we  will  carry  to  our 
homes  the  kindliest  feelings  and  sentiments  of  appreciation  of 
his  manly  and  dignified  conduct."  While  in  the  House  Col. 
Jones  wrote  and  secured  the  passage  of  a  riot  act  which  has 
been  copied  by  eleven  States  and  is  still  in  force.  He  also  took 
an  active  part  in  securing  an  appropriation  for  the  erection  of 
a  monument  to  the  Confederate  Dead  on  Capitol  Hill  and  his 
speech  in  the  House  on  Feb.  12,  1887,  had  much  to  do  with  the 
passage  of  the  appropriation  act.  Twenty  years  later  he  deliv- 
ered the  address  at  the  unveiling  of  the  monument. 

In  1897,  during  the  Yellow  Fever  Epidemic,  when  thousands 
of  citizens  left  the  city,  he  remained  with  his  people  and  was 
elected  Chairman  of  the  Citizens'  Relief  Committee,  which  was 
organized  to  assist  the  needy  and  the  hundreds  who  were  thrown 
out  of  work  and  were  unable  to  leave  the  city. 

In  May,  1890,  the  Democrats  of  Alabama,  in  the  most  excit- 
ing convention  held  since  the  war,  nominated  him  for  Governor 
of  Alabama.  There  were  five  candidates  for  the  nomination — 
the  strongest  being  R.  F.  Kolb,  head  of  the  Farmers'  Alliance 

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movement.  All  of  the  other  candidates  were  opposed  to  Kolb 
who  at  no  time  had  a  majority  of  the  votes  in  the  convention, 
although  he  had  a  plurality.  Under  the  rules  of  the  conven- 
tion a  majority  of  votes  was  necessary  to  a  choice  and  a  con- 
ference of  the  friends  of  the  other  aspirants  was  held  to  pick 
the  man  who  should  make  the  fight  against  Kolb  and  the  Alli- 
ance. The  personal  equation  figured  largely  as  did  the  views 
of  the  candidates  upon  the  St.  Louis  and  Ocala  platforms.  Thos. 
G.  Jones  had  been  more  outspoken  upon  the  stump  and  each 
candidate  preferred  Jones'  nomination  to  that  of  any  one  but 
himself.  The  conference  decided  that  Col.  Jones  was  the  man 
demanded  by  the  exigencies  of  the  occasion.  He  had  made  his 
campaign  boldly.  He  had  fought  with  all  his  ability  and 
strength  the  innovation  that  proposed  to  have  the  Democratic 
Party  controlled  by  "a.  secret  oath-bound  organization/' — a 
wheel  within  a  wheel.  The  conservatives  centered  upon  him  and 
he  won  the  fight.  Capt.  Kolb's  name  was  withdrawn  and  Col. 
Jones  unanimously  declared  the  nominee  and  was  triumphantly 
elected  Governor  in  August,  1890.  On  Dec.  1,  1890,  he  took 
the  oath  of  office  and  entered  upon  the  discharge  of  his  duties. 
He  was  the  first  Governor  of  Alabama  to  send  a  message  to 
the  Legislature  urging  action  that  would  curb  the  free  pass 
evil  and  he  worked  hard  for  the  passage  of  a  bill  embodying  his 
ideas.  "It  failed — not  for  lack  of  his  own  personal  interest,  but 
because  it  was  in  advance  of  public  sentiment."  As  Governor 
he  succeeded  in  raising  the  tax  rate  in  order  to  meet  the  public 
debts,  combatted  the  movement  in  behalf  of  repudiation,  favored 
a  reform  in  prison  management  and  a  scheme  for  the  gradual 
removal  of  the  State  convicts  from  mines.  He  stumped  the 
State  in  opposition  to  the  Sub-Treasury,  fiat  money,  and  Land 
Loan  Bill.  He  was  firm  in  the  suppression  of  lawlessness  and 
frequently  used  the  military  to  prevent  mobs  from  lynching 
prisoners — no  matter  what  crime  was  charged  against  them,  and 
on  the  other  hand,  freely  used  the  pardoning  power  in  favor  of 
the  weak  and  humble  who,  in  the  passions  of  the  times,  were 
frequently  dealt  with  harshly  for  small  offenses.  In  May,  1894, 
he  took  personal  charge  of  the  troops  and  put  down  without 
bloodshed  the  Coal  Miner's  Strike  in  the  Birmingham  District 

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and  later  in  July  of  that  same  year  the  Debs  Strike.  Col.  Jones 
was  re-nominated  by  the  Democrats  and  re-elected  Governor  in 
1892  over  R.  F.  Kolb.  the  populist  nominee,  and  served  until 
December,  1894. 

The  following  editorial  from  the  Shelby  Sentinel  is  a  fair 
specimen  of  the  editorials  which  appeared  in  the  press  of  Ala- 
bama upon  Gov.  Jones'  retirement:  "Xo  abler  hand  has  ever 
held  the  helm  of  State  of  our  proud  commonwealth  than  that  of 
Thos.  G.  Jones.  No  pilot  heretofore  has  ever  been  called  upon 
to  steer  our  ship  of  State  through  stormier  waters.  No  braver 
leader  has  ever  rallied  to  his  bugle  call  the  true  sons  of  Alabama. 
No  cooler  head,  or  warmer  heart,  nor  steadier  arm  has  ever  bat- 
tled for  Alabama's  welfare.  She  has  had  many  noble  sons  to 
fill  her  executive  chair,  but  among  them  all  there  was  none  more 
nobler  than  he.  Many  gallant  sons  have  illustrated  Alabama 
valor,  both  in  the  forum  and  in  the  field,  in  peace  and  war,  but 
none  ever  illustrated  it  more  courageously  than  he.  To  his  strong 
hand,  brave  heart,  cool  judgment,  indomitable  courage,  sterling 
integrity  and  unflinching  patriotism  are  the  people  of  Alabama 
indebted  for  the  safe  conduct  of  their  craft  during  the  last  four 
years  between  the  raging  waters  of  Charybdis  and  the  threaten- 
ing rocks  of  Scylla.  Well  has  he  illustrated  in  his  guberna- 
torial course  that  grand  idea  of  Gen.  Lee  that  duty  is  not  only 
the  sublimest  word  in  the  language,  but  the  sublimest  action  of 
which  man  is  capable.  *  *  He  is  again  plain  Tom  Jones,  but 
he  has  left  an  impression  on  the  State  that  will  last  while  cour- 
age is  commended  and  devotion  to  duty  is  honored  by  the 
Anglo-Saxon  race."' 

Gov.  Jones  has  always  insisted  that  a  well  regulated  militia 
is  essential  to  the  security  of  a  free  state,  and  soon  after  the 
War  aided  in  organizing  a  company  for  home  protection  which 
was  chartered  as  the  "Governor's  Guard'"'"  and  in  IS 74  Gov, 
Houston  appointed  him  a  member  of  his  military  stafi\  In 
1876  he  resigned  to  accept  the  Captaincy  of  the  ]\Iontgomery 
Greys,  to  which  he  had  been  unanimously  elected  and  which  was 
one  of  the  most  famous  military  organizations  in  the  South,  He 
commanded  this  company  for  three  years,  resigning  its  captaincy 
in  1880  to  accept  an  unanimous  election  as  Colonel  of  the  -2nd 

(  lor  ) 


Regiment^  Alabama  State  Troops,  and  in  1883  he  was  re-elected 
On  Oct.  13y  1886,  Col.  Jones  tendered  Gov.  O'Neal  his  resig 
nation.    The  Governor  accepted  it,  but  with  the  proviso  that  i 
should  not  take  effect  until  the  close  of  his  term.    In  accepting 
the  resignation  Gov.  O'Neal  said: 

"Your  retirement  from  this  position  is  viewed  by  me  with  grea- 
regret.  My  reliance  upon  your  faithful  and  intelligent  perform- 
ance of  duty  has  never  been  in  vain.  At  all  times,  and  more  thai 
once  upon  occasions  of  great  difficulty  and  doubt,  occasions  call- 
ing for  the  exercise  of  the  greatest  skill  and  patience,  you  have 
executed  orders  and  carried  out  the  policies  of  this  administration 
with  wisdom,  moderation  and  courage.  Your  soldierly  bearing 
and  conduct  have  imbued  the  Alabama  State  Troops  with  mili- 
tary spirit  and  ardour.  In  your  resignation  the  State  sustains 
a  loss  most  difficult  to  supply." 

The  following  February,  acceding  to  the  earnest  solicitation 
of  officers  and  men,  he  again  accepted  an  unanimous  election  to 
the  colonelcy,  remaining  with  the  regiment  until  his  nomination 
for  Governor.  In  him  the  State  troops  found  a  hard  worker 
and  one  who  sought  in  every  way  to  increase  their  efficiency. 
Col.  Jones  was  a  firm,  but  kind  disciplinarian,  insisting  on  work 
rather  than  display.  He  taught  that  discipline,  guard  duty, 
police  and  care  for  the  comfort  and  health  of  the  men  were  the 
objects  for  which  officers  should  strive.  During  Col.  Jones* 
long  service  with  the  State  Troops  he  was  invariably  sent  in  com- 
mand of  the  troops  to  aid  in  the  enforcement  of  the  law  by 
Governors  Houston,  Cobb,  O'Neal  and  Seay.  Gov.  O'Neal  in 
his  published  orders  after  the  Posey  riot  said:  "Col.  Jones,  the 
commanding  officer,  was  charged  with  a  grave  responsibility 
and  large  discretion  under  circumstances  of  the  greatest  dif- 
ficulty, and  to  his  courage,  temper,  prudence  and  skill  is  mainly 
due  the  repressing  of  a  dangerous  revolt  against  the  laws  and 
dignity  of  the  State."  Gov.  Seay,  referring  to  his  services  dur- 
ing the  Hawe's  riots,  said:  "He  deserved  and  received  the  grati- 
tude of  the  State." 

Col.  Jones'  former  commander,  General  John  B.  Gordon,  in 
recommending  him  to  President  McKinley  for  appointment  as 
Brigadier  General  of  Volunteers  during  the  Spanish-American 

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\ 

I 

War_,  wrote  that  "the  State  of  Alabama  could  not  furnish  one  J 
more  worthy  of  the  Government's  confidence,  nor  whose  char- 
acteristics, mental  and  moral,  more  eminently  fit  him  for  the  ; 
high  command  which  is  sought  for  him." 

Gov.  Jones  has  always  been  a  Democrat  and  loyal  and  un- 
compromising in  support  of  that  party.  In  1896,  believing  that 
the  Chicago  platform  was  an  assault  upon  the  best  institutions 
of  his  country,  he  worked  and  voted  for  Palmer  and  Buckner. 
He  was  president  of  the  State  Sound  Money  Convention  and  a 
delegate  to  the  Indianapolis  Convention. 

Gov.  Jones  early  became  a  member  of  the  Alabama  State  Bar 
Association,  and  at  its  Mobile  meeting  in  1881  read  a  report  for 
the  Committee  on  Judicial  Administration  and  Remedial  Proce- 
dure, in  which  report  he  recommended  the  appointment  of  a  com- 
mittee to  consider  the  matter  of  a  legal  code  of  ethics, 
and  at  the  meeting  in  1882  he  was  appointed  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Code  of  Ethics.  In  1887. 
a  Code  of  Ethics  of  which  Gov.  Jones  was  the  author, 
was  adopted  by  the  Ala.  Bar  Association.  Twenty  years  after- 
ward, the  American  Bar  Association  did  him  the  honor  of  re- 
questing him  to  be  a  member  of  its  committee  on  Code  of  Pro- 
fessional Ethics,  though  he  was  not  then  a  member  of  the 
Association.  In  1901  he  was  unanimously  elected  President  of 
the  Alabama  State  Bar  Association.  The  Alabama  Code  of 
Ethics  written  by  Col.  Jones,  and  the  first  of  its  kind  in  England 
or  America,  was  made  the  foundations  for  the  canons  adopted  by 
the  American  Bar  Association.  The  Alabama  Code,  with  slight 
modifications,  has  also  been  adopted  in  eleven  other  States  of  the 
Union. 

In  1901  Gov.  Jones  was  elected  a  delegate  from  the  2nd  Con- 
gressional District  to  the  Alabama  Constitutional  Convention 
and  was  appointed  Chairman  to  the  Committee  on  Executive 
Department.  During  the  Convention  he  advocated  a  provision 
giving  the  Governor  power  to  remove  any  sheriff  who  failed  to 
do  his  duty  in  defending  a  prisoner  against  mob  violence.  Tho 
this  did  not  pass  he  secured  a  provision  giving  the  Supreme 
Court  power  to  impeach  sheriffs.    In  advocating  his  provision, 


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Gov.  Jones  said  in  part:  "Let  us  be  frank  with  ourselves.  Every 
time  a  citizen  rises  up  and  appeals  for  law,  some  man  says  a 
negro  has  committed  an  unmentionable  crime  and,  therefore,  the 
sacredness  of  all  law  must  be  cast  to  the  winds.  *  *  *  People  in 
Alabama  who  have  not  taken  the  trouble  to  keep  pace  with 
events,  will  be  startled  to  be  told  that  in  the  last  ten  years,  over 
one  hundred  citizens  in  Alabama  have  been  taken  by  mobs  from 
sheriffs  and  jails  and  murdered.  Yet  such  is  the  case.  Such 
is  our  bloody  record  and  yet  two-thirds  of  those  people  were  not 
guilty  of  a  crime  which  I  will  not  mention  because  of  fair  lis- 
teners in  the  galleries  *  *  *  Why  is  it  of  all  men  on  earth,  who 
are  trusted  with  the  keeping  of  others,  that  a  standard  of  honor 
must  be  made  for  officers  of  the  law  different  from  all  others,  and 
that  he  should  take  no  risk.^  Mr.  President,  the  minister  of 
the  gospel  who  would  fail  to  visit  the  veriest  stranger,  much  less 
one  of  his  own  congregation,  who  is  stricken  with  deadly  dis- 
ease, because  of  personal  fear,  would  be  outlawed  and  scourged 
for  all  time.  We  see  locomotive  engineers  every  day  standing 
by  the  throttle  and  risking  their  lives  to  save  their  passengers. 
We  have  seen  captains  of  ships  standing  on  the  bridge,  that 
the  women  and  children  might  be  saved,  and  going  down  to 
death  in  the  waters.  What  policeman  would  be  allowed  to  wear 
his  uniform  five  minutes  if  he  refused  to  make  an  arrest  at  the 
risk  of  loss  of  his  life.^  What  man  would  have  respect  for  the 
Alabama  State  Troops,  no  matter  what  the  odds,  if  they  allowed 
a  mob  to  take  a  prisoner  from  them.^  Such  a  standard  as  is 
claimed  for  sheriffs  has  no  recognition  in  any  laws  of  honor.  It 
is  a  false  standard  of  duty  and,  if  I  may  be  pardoned  for  saying 
it,  a  cowardly  standard  of  duty.  *  *  *  Let  us  not  deceive  our- 
selves. Two-thirds  of  the  executions  of  prisoners  by  mobs  are  due 
to  one  or  two  things — either  the  cowardice  of  the  sheriff,  and  I 
don't  think  there  have  been  many  cases  of  cowardice — or  to  a 
willingness  for  the  mob  to  succeed,  from  the  false  conviction  that 
a  sheriff  in  fighting  them  is  not  fighting  for  the  law  but  for  some 
worthless  prisoner.  In  county  after  county  everybody  but  the 
Grand  Jury  knows  who  did  the  deed.  Case  after  case  of  this 
sort  happened  and  continue  to  happen  and  nobody  is  ever  brought 


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THOMAS  GOODE  JONES 


to  the  bar  of  justice.  There  is  no  prosecution.  No  strong  voice 
ever  condemns  it.  We  owe  it  to  ourselves,  we  owe  it  to  our 
children  we  owe  it  to  our  God,  to  put  a  stop  to  this  base  indif- 
ference to  murder  and  making  excuses  for  men  who  will  not 
risk  anything  for  the  preservation  of  human  life  and  the  honor 
of  the  State.  *  *  If  the  gentleman  asks  me  if  I  am  unwilling 
to  trust  the  people  of  the  county,  I  tell  him  frankly  yes,  because 
the  people  of  the  county  never  find  out  who  commits  these 
crimes.  We  don't  wish  the  mob  and  its  friends  to  murder  the 
law.  Nobody  knows  who  constituted  the  mob  when  the  author- 
ities investigate.  Yet  is  is  known  to  everybody  else  but  the 
officers  of  the  law  and  the  Grand  Jury.  *  *  *  Every  citizen  in 
Alabama  is  interested.  All  our  civilization  is  based  on  the  idea 
that  no  man  can  "be  deprived  of  life,  liberty  or  property  with- 
out due  process  of  law."  Without  its  enforcement  there  can 
be  no  civilization — no  government  worthy  of  the  name.  *  *  ^ 
As  Southern  men  let  us  ask  ourselves,  have  we  stopped  mobs  at 
rape.'^  Is  not  the  thirst  of  mob  violence  for  blood  as  great  in 
many  lesser  crimes.^  Are  not  our  courts  open?  Is  justice  ad- 
ministered by  our  judges  or  juries.^  How  many  of  these  con- 
tinued outbreaks  and  assaults  upon  officers  and  jails  been  pun- 
ished.^ We  know  and  the  world  knows.  Does  it  behoove  us 
to  pause  and  consider?  To  devise  some  remedy?  To  strike 
some  blow  for  the  sanctity  of  human  life  and  the  honor  of  our 
State?  *     Mob  executions  are  brutalizing  our  children, 

blunting  our  religion,  and  undermining  our  civilization.  Can 
anyone  in  the  sound  of  my  voice  rise  up  and  say  that  this  is  not 
so?  We  are  undermining  all  noble  ideals  of  duty  and  manhood. 
When  we  surrender  to  any  local  public  opinion  which  dominates 
in  some  places,  that  a  sheriff  is  not  bound  to  take  any  risks, 
even  to  loss  of  life  or  limb  in  defense  of  a  prisoner,  we  abdicate 
all  our  past  and  bow  down  and  worship  false  and  base  standards 
of  duty.  Why  should  not  the  sheriff  die  at  his  post  as  well  as  the 
locomotive  engineer,  or  the  priest,  or  the  doctor,  or  the  soldier? 
We  are  setting  a  baleful  example  to  our  young  sons,  who  are 
coming  up  among  us,  if  we  teach  that  when  a  prisoner  is  given 
to  an  officer,  that  officer  is  free  to  desert  his  post  of  duty  be- 


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cause  there  may  be  danger  in  it.  It  is  not  like  Alabama  or  the 
South  to  tolerate  such  a  cowardly  doctrine." 

As  a  member  of  the  Convention  he  heartily  favored  placing 
in  the  Constitution  a  self-executing  provision  against  free  passes, 
a  provision  which  would  itself  and  without  action  by  the  legis- 
lature, prevent  the  use  of  free  passes  by  state  officials  and  mem- 
bers of  the  legislature.  This  provision  was  finally  embodied  in 
the  Constitution.  He  also  favored  increasing  the  governor's 
term  to  four  years  and  favored  biennial  sessions  of  the  legis- 
lature. He  took  a  prominent  part  in  all  the  counsels  of  the 
convention  and  incorporated  in  the  Constitution  several  new  pro- 
visions, among  them,  an  article  for  ascertaining  the  disability  of 
the  governor  while  exercising  the  office  and  defining  what  mea- 
sure of  use  of  stimulants  or  narcotics  should  constitute  an  im- 
peachable offense,  and  also  to  allow  the  governor  to  suggest 
amendments  to  bills  instead  of  vetoing  them  from  the  beginning 
and  also  to  provide  for  the  assembling  of  the  legislature  at  any 
time  when  not  in  session  to  impeach  the  governor. 

On  October  7,  1901,  Gov.  Jones  was  appointed  by  President 
Theodore  Roosevelt  to  the  office  of  United  States  District  Judge 
for  the  Northern  and  Middle  Districts  of  Alabama,  which  office 
he  now  holds.  Gov.  Jones'  name  was  first  suggested  to  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  by  Ex-president  Grover  Cleveland,  and  when  it 
became  known  that  the  President  was  considering  his  name, 
Senators  Morgan  and  Pettus,  Gen.  Stewart  L.  Woodford,  ex- 
Minister  to  Spain,  Justice  John  M.  Harlan,  Gen.  John  B.  Gor- 
don, and  Booker  Washington,  the  great  negro  educator,  heartily 
urged  the  appointment.  Gov.  Jones  was  not  an  applicant  for  the 
appointment  and  did  not  know  that  it  was  contemplated  until 
a  close  personal  friend  of  the  President  enquired  whether  he 
would  accept  the  appointment  if  tendered.  This  was  President 
Roosevelt's  first  appointment  of  consequence  and  was  widely 
favorably  commented  upon  both  in  the  United  States  and  in 
England.  The  appointment  met  with  universal  approval  and 
the  President  was  showered  with  congratulatory  telegrams  from 
all  over  the  State.  The  Alabama  Congressional  Delegation, 
leading  Republicans,  the  Governor  of  Alabama,  Ex-Secretary 


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of  Navy,  Hilary  A.  Herbert,  the  entire  bar  of  the  State,  State 
judges  and  officials  were  delighted  with  the  selection  and  the 
press  of  the  State  and  Nation,  without  exception,  praised  it. 
The  Charleston  Post  remarked  editorially  that  "President  Roose- 
velt has  probably  interpreted  the  will  of  the  people  as  closely 
as  if  he  had  submitted  the  choice  to  a  plebiscite"  and  the  Nor- 
folk Landmark  said:  "When  Roosevelt  appointed  Judge  Jones 
to  that  federal  judgeship  in  Alabama  he  showed  himself  to  be 
a  real  president." 

Judge  Jones  attracted  the  attention  of  the  Nation  in  1904 
when  he  charged  a  United  States  Grand  Jury  at  Huntsville, 
Alabama,  that  under  the  XIII.  and  XIV.  Amendments  to  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  the  Federal  Statutes  pass- 
ed in  pursuance  thereof,  the  Federal  Government  had  authority 
to  punish  the  lynching  of  a  negro  charged  with  the  commission  of 
a  crime  when  in  custody  under  the  state  law  and  that  such  a 
lynching  itself  was  a  conspiracy,  under  the  provisions  of  the 
U.  S.  Statutes,  to  deprive  the  prisoner  of  a  right,  privilege  or 
immunity  guaranteed  by  the  Constitution  to  enjoy  due  process 
of  law.  In  this  view  of  the  law  he  was  sustained  by  many  of 
the  ablest  lawyers  and  some  of  the  leading  legal  magazines  of 
the  country.  No  doubt  a  decision  from  the  Supreme  Court  up- 
holding the  right  of  the  Federal  Government  to  punish  lynchers 
of  prisoners,  in  the  custody  of  State  officers,  would  have  been 
of  incalculable  benefit  to  the  country.  However,  since  Judge 
Jones'  ruling  the  Supreme  Court  has  held  that  the  Federal  Gov- 
ernment has  no  power  to  punish  lynchers  who  defeat  the  en- 
joyment of  due  process  when  the  state  is  endeavoring  to 
afford  it. 

Judge  Jones  took  a  firm  stand  against  peonage  and  it  was  due 
to  his  uncompromising  attitude  and  the  infliction  of  punishment 
upon  the  intentional  violators  of  the  law  that  this  great  evil  has 
largely  been  stamped  out.  Since  he  has  been  on  the  bench  Judge 
Jones  has  written  about  sixty  opinions  which  are  published  in  the 
volumes  of  the  Federal  Reporter  subsequent  to  volume  111. 
Among  his  most  noted  opinions  are:  Ex  parte  McLeod,  120 
Fed.  130,  a  contempt  case.    Senator  John  M.  Thurston,  of  Neb- 


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raska,  delivering  the  closing  argument  in  the  Impeachment 
Case  of  Judge  Chas.  Swayne  incorporated  the  entire  opinion  in 
his  remarks  in  support  of  one  of  his  contentions,  saying:  "I  pre- 
sent the  opinion  of  District  Judge  Jones,  a  judge  whose  great 
legal  ability  and  attainments  are  known  to  every  Senator  in  this 
body  from  that  whole  section  of  the  country.  It  is  the  clearest, 
the  most  exhaustive,  the  most  convincing  exposition  of  the  law 
upon  this  subject  that  I  have  ever  seen  or  read."  In  re  Tune, 
a  bankruptcy  case,  115  Fed.  906;  Charge  to  Grand  Jury  in 
Peonage  Cases,  123  Fed.  671;  Citizens  L.  H.  &.  Co.  vs.  Mont- 
gomery L.  &  W.  P.  Co.,  171  Fed.  553,  and  his  opinions  in  the 
various  rate  cases  which  came  before  him  in  1907  and  the  years 
following.  Judge  Jones  was  presiding  in  these  rate  cases  when 
the  then  Governor  of  Alabama  attempted  to  bring  the  State  into 
a  condition  of  lawlessness  and  anarchy  by  counselling  disobed- 
ience to  the  orders  of  the  United  States  Court  and  threatening 
to  use  the  military  against  the  court.  Only  the  Judge's  firm 
stand  and  announced  purpose  to  enforce  the  orders  of  his  court 
regardless  of  cost  or  consequence,  and  the  official  announce- 
ment of  the  authorities  at  Washington  that  every  resource  of  the 
Government  would  back  the  United  States  Court,  saved  the 
State  from  many  of  the  evils  of  a  civil  war. 

Thos.  G.  Jones  is  a  trustee  of  the  Bishop's  Fund  of  the  Pro- 
testant Episcopal  Diocese  of  Alabama,  a  trustee  of  Hamner 
Hall  School  and  a  member  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church  and 
Inspector  General  of  the  United  Confederate  Veterans. 

CHARLES^  POLLARD  JONES,  youngest  son  of  SamueF 
Goode  and  Martha  W.  Goode  Jones,  was  b.  at  Montgomery, 
Alabama,  June  13,  1858.  He  was  educated  in  a  private  school 
at  Hick's  Ford,  Va.,  was  a  student  at  the  Agricultural  &  Mechan- 
ical College  of  Alabama  and  later  attended  the  University  of  the 
South  at  Sewanee,  Tenn.  Upon  his  return  to  Montgomery  he 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  his  brother,  Thomas  Goode  Jones, 
later  Governor  of  Alabama,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1881.  In  1882  he  entered  the  Law  Department  of  the  Louis- 
ville &  Nashville  Railroad,  having  charge  of  their  tax  matters 
in  Alabama  and  Florida.    This  position  he  held  until  appointed. 


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Dec.  1,  1890,  Assistant  District  Attornev  of  the  L.  &  X.  R.  R. 
Co.  Col.  Jones  was  a  member  of  the  Montgomery  Greys,  one 
of  the  most  famous  military  companies  in  the  South  and  was 
made  1st  Lieutenant  of  the  company  on  Jan.  3,  1883  and  became 
Captain  March  1,  1888.  holding  the  office  until  appointed  Ad- 
jutant General  of  the  Alabama  State  Troops.  May  6.  1889, 
by  Governor  Thos.  Seay.  He  was  retained  in  this  office  by  his 
brother,  Thos.  G.  Jones,  governor  of  Alabama,  1890-94,  resign- 
ing in  January,  1895  on  account  of  pressure  of  his  professional 
matters.  Col.  Jones  was  also  Division  Counsel  for  the  Central 
of  Georgia  Railway  Co.,  and  was  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Thos.  G.  &  Chas.  P.  Jones  until  the  senior  member  of  the  firm 
was  appointed  U.  S.  Judge  by  President  Roosevelt  in  1901. 
On  February  10,  1891,  Col.  Jones  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Elizabeth  M.  Murphy  of  Xew  Orleans  and  had  issue:  Laura 
Goode  Jones  and  Chas.  Pollard  Jones  both  of  whom  are  now  liv- 
ing with  their  mother  at  Xo.  514  S.  McDonough  St.,  Mont- 
gomery, Alabama.  Col.  Jones  took  an  active  interest  in  politics 
and  for  many  years  served  as  Chairman  of  the  Central  Council 
of  the  Montgomery  Democracy.  He  was  also  a  Mason  and  a 
Knight  of  Pythias. 

For  some  time  prior  to  his  death  Col.  Jones  and  his  family  had 
been  living  in  the  West  on  account  of  his  health  and  it  was  at 
Colorado  Springs,  Col.,  that  Death  found  him  on  the  morning  of 
Xovember  6th,  1907.  His  body  was  brought  to  Montgomery 
and  was  met  at  the  Union  Station  by  the  Retired  Corps  of  the 
Montgomery  Greys  who  accompanied  it  as  an  escort  to  the  resi- 
dence of  Judge  Thos.  G.  Jones.  The  funeral  was  held  from  St. 
John's  Church,  of  which  Col.  Jones  had  been  a  member,  on 
Xovember  9th,  all  of  the  military  companies  of  the  city  accom- 
panying the  body  to  Oakwood  Cemetery  where  interment  was 
made,  after  which  taps  were  sounded  and  a  volley  fired  over  the 
new  made  grave. 

The  following  tribute  to  the  life  and  services  of  Col.  Jones 
appeared  in  the  editorial  column  of  the  ^lontg:omery  Journal  on 
X'ov.  Sth. 

"Col.  Jones  was  a  typical  Southerner,  big  hearted,  generous  to 
a  fault,  brave  and  courageous  and  gentle  as  a  woman  in  his 

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dealings  with  his  fellow  man.  He  was  widely  known  and  be- 
cause of  his  gentleness,  his  undaunted  courage,  his  sterling  in- 
tegrity, his  self-sacrificing  disposition,  his  loyalty  and  fidelity  to 
his  friends,  his  unswerving  adherence  to  what  he  believed  right, 
and  his  high  character,  none  knew  him  but  to  love  him.  He  was 
the  soul  of  honor,  the  truest  type  of  Southern  Chivalry  and 
Southern  manhood.  He  was  a  man  of  conviction,  but  tolerant 
of  those  who  differed  with  him,  always  conceding  to  others  what 
he  claimed  for  himself — honesty  of  purpose.  His  heart  went 
out  in  sympathy  to  those  in  distress  and  no  one  in  need  of  help 
ever  appealed  to  him  in  vain.      *  * 

"With  the  passing  of  Col.  Jones,  the  Alabama  Bar  Association 
loses  one  of  its  ablest  members,  the  State  a  valuable  citizen,  and 
his  family  a  devoted  husband  and  father.  Though  he  died  over 
a  thousand  miles  from  his  native  State,  it  is  well  that  his  ashes 
shall  rest  beneath  the  sod  of  Alabama.  The  name  and  memory 
of  Chas.  P.  Jones  will  ever  live  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  knew 
and  loved  him." 

EDWIN^  FRANCIS  JONES,  third  son  of  SamueF  Goode 
and  Martha  W.  Goode  Jones,  was  born  at  Montgomery,  Dec. 
21,  1853.  He  was  educated  at  the  East  Alabama  Conference 
College  (now  A.  P.  I.  at  Auburn)  and  the  Virginia  Military  In- 
stitute. He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  July  31st,  1876  and  was 
assistant  United  States  Attorney  for  the  Middle  District  of  Ala- 
bama in  1896  and  in  1902  served  as  a  Special  Judge  for  the 
Fifth  Alabama  Circuit  and  in  1906  he  was  assistant  United 
States  Attorney  for  the  Territory  of  Arizona.  On  April  8,  1880, 
he  married  Bertha  Hansford  Stubbs,  only  daughter  of  Isham 
Baytop  Stubbs  and  Mary  A.  C.  Stubbs  of  Montgomery  and  has 
issue  as  follows:  1.  Samuel  Baytop  Jones,  b.  at  Montgomery, 
Feb.  26,  1884  and  2.  Mary  Virginia  Jones,  b.  at  Montgomery, 
Feb.  26,  1888.  She  was  married  at  Tucson,  Ariz.,  on  Aug.  9. 
1911,  to  Albert  Montgomery  and  has  one  son,  born  Dec.  23,  1912 
at  Tucson,  and  named  Edwin  Jones  Montgomery.  For  a  good 
many  years  past  Mr.  Jones  and  his  family  have  made  their  home 
in  Tucson,  Ariz.,  where  Mr.  Jones  is  engaged  in  the  practise 
of  his  profession. 


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INDEX 


.\nderson,  Gen.  Geo.  B.,  61-63. 
Anderson,   Robt.  W.,  39. 
Anderson,  Wm.  E.,  39. 
Appomatox,  100. 
Armstrong,  Aurora  E.,  91. 
Armstrong,  Martha  W.,  91. 
Armstrong,  Samuel  J.,  90. 
Ashe,  Lieut.  John  Baptista,  33. 
Ashe,  Maria,  64. 
Ashe,  Marv,  33. 
Ashe,  Thos.   S.,  42. 
Ashe,  Caroline  B.,  42,  62. 
Battle,  Edmund  S.,  62. 
Battle,  Frank,  35. 
Battle,  John  A.  M.,  34. 
Battle.  Jno.  S.,  60. 
Battle,  Louis  J.,  62. 
Battle.  Mrs.  R.  H.,  62. 
Battle.  'Walter  G.,  60. 
Baker,  Harrr  B.,  64. 
Baker,  T.  Roberts,  47. 
Binns.  Lucv,  SI. 
Birch.  Alex  C.  70-1. 
Birch,  Allie  C,  61. 
Birch,  Florence  Milner,  70. 
Bird,  Caroline  S.,  56-7. 
Bird,  Georgena  C,  67. 
Bird,  Dr.  Marshall  Henry,  56. 
Bird,  Martha  Sophia,  57. 
Bizzell,  Frank,  41. 
Blair,  Christian,  82. 
Blair,  John,  83. 
Bollina:,  John,  89. 
Boiling.  Col.  Robt.,  89. 
Brevard,  Joseph,  94. 
Bryan.  Anne  Butler,  84. 
Burgwin,  Augustus,  46. 
Burg-^in,  Ann  .Maria,  43. 
Burgwin,  Bartlett  R.,  65. 
Burgwin,  Caronne  E.,  23. 
Burgwin,   Collinson  P.  E.,  29. 
Burgwin,  ElLza  Bu=..,  20-21. 
Burgwln,  Geo.  Wm.  Bush,  27. 
Burgwin,  Geo.  Collinson,  46. 
BurgTvin,  Geo.  Pollok,  54,  64-5. 
Burgwin,   Hill,  43-46. 
BurgT\-in,  Henry  King,  29. 
Burg^\-in,  Col.  Henry  King,  47-51. 
Burgwin,  John  Alveston,  55. 
Burgwin,  j.  H.  K.,  39,  40,  43. 
Burgwin.  John  Fannina:.  22. 
BURGWIX.  JOHX,  97  13,  15,  16, 

19,  21,  24. 

Burgwin,  Julia  T.,  28. 

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Burgwin,  James,  10. 

Burgwin,  Kenneth,  46. 

Burgwin,  Sarah  E.,  29. 

Burgwin,  Col.  W.  H.  S.,  51-54,  65. 

Burgwin,  Witherspoon  H.,  43. 

Burwell,   Armistead,  82. 

Burwell,  Col.  Lewis,  82. 

Bush,  Eliza,  17. 

Bush,  Family  of,  18. 

Cargill,  John,  81. 

Cargill,  LuCT  Binns,  81. 

Castle  Havnes,  12. 

Clitherall,  '  AUie,  61. 

Chtherall,  Judge  Alexander  B.,  35-38. 

Clitherall,  Eliza  Inglis,  30. 

Clitherall,  Frances  E.  King,  34. 

Clitherall,  Dr.  George  Campbell,  25. 

Clitherall,  Geo.  Bush  Burgwin,  34. 

Clitherall,  Harriet  Alexanderine,  34. 

Clitherall,  John,  25. 

Clitherall,  Madeleine,  35. 

Clitherall,  Mattie,  60. 

Chtherall,  Minnie,  60. 

Code  of  Ethics,  107. 

Cohoon,  Gena,  72, 

Cohoon,  Goode  Jones,  72. 

Cohoon,  Martha  Goode,  72. 

Cohoon,  Thos.  J.,  72. 

Cohoon,  Thos.  W.,  72. 

Cohoon,  "Willis,  72. 

Collinson,  Rev.  John,  25. 

Dandridge,  Mary,  82. 

Dandridge,  Capt.  Wm.,  83. 

Davis,  Rebecca  Moore,  33. 

Deas,  Mrs.  Margaret,  42. 

De  Pass,  Ethel,  ^64. 

De  Pass,  Lily,  64. 

Devereux,  John,  23. 

Dunlop,  Margaret  C,  53. 

Edwards,  Eunice,  22. 

Edwards,  Jonathan,  22. 

Ellsberrv,  Arthur,  60. 

Ellsberry,  Clitherall,  70. 

Ellsberry,  Katherine  C,  70. 

Ellsberrv,   Kate,  69. 

EUsberrv,  Mattie,  60. 

Ellsberry,  AViUiam  E.  Jr.,  60. 

Ewing,  Mary,  91. 

Ewing,  Robt.,  91. 

Fauntleroy,  Xetta  Battle,  59. 

Fauntleroy,  Philip  William,  60. 

Fauntleroy,  Thos.  Turner,  60. 

Forbes,  Sally  Ann,  34. 

Gait,  Ann  Riggs,  66. 

'  ) 


Gait,  Edw.  P.,  66. 

Gait,  Junius  Riggs,  66. 

Gait,  Mary,  66. 

Gait,  Wm.  Clark,  66. 

Gesner,  Mary  Virginia,  9o. 

Gettysburg,  50. 

Goode,  John,  82. 

Goode,  Mary  Armistead,  82. 

Goode,  Richd.,  82. 

Goode,  Robt.,  82. 

Goode,  Col.  Samuel,  82. 

Goode,  Dr.  Thos.,  90. 

Hall,  Mrs.  A.  P.,  57. 

Harrison,  Elizabeth,  80. 

Harrison,  Nathaniel,  81. 

Haynes,  Roger,  11. 

Haynes,  Mary,  12. 

Haynes,  Margaret,  11. 

Hermitage,  The,  12-14. 

Hilliard,  F.  W.,  41. 

Holt,  Chas.  T.,  71. 

Holt,  Louisa  M.,  71. 

Horst,  Hattie  C,  68. 

Horst,  Henry  A.  Jr.,  68. 

Huck,  Mrs.  Lewis  N.,  35-57. 

Hunt,  Sarah  r  lerrepont,  22. 

Inglis,  Eliza,  11. 

Inglis,  George,  10. 

Jackson,  "Stonewall,"  97-47. 

Johnston,  Samuel  Iredell,  41. 

Johnston,  Rev.  Gabriel,  42. 

Jones,  Col.  Charles  Pollard,  114-115. 

Jones,  Carter,  91. 

Jones,  Edwin  Burwell,  95. 

Jones,  Edward  Elmore,  95. 

Jones,  Edwin  Francis,  116. 

Jones,  Franklin  Elmore,  95. 

Jones,  Geo.  C,  57. 

Jones,  George  H.,  69. 

Jones,  Geo.  Mason,  95. 

Jones,  Geo.  LovicI:,  35. 

Jones,  Gordon  H.,  72. 

Jones,  Harvey  E.,  57-59. 

Jones,  Harvey  E.  Jr.,  69. 

Jones,  "Hellcat,"  80. 

Jones,  John,  80-81. 

Jones,  Rev.  John  Cargill,  82. 

Jones,  J.  Paul,  82. 

Jones,  Col.  John,  79-80. 

Jones,  John  Stewart,  69. 

Jones,  John  Ravenscroft,  95. 

Jones,  Joseph  Brevard,  94. 

Jones,  Laura  Goode,  115. 

Jones,  Madeleine,  60. 

Jones,  Minnie  Wilmer,  59. 

Jones,  Martha  W.,  90. 

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Jones,  Marshall  B.,  68. 
Jones,  Netta  S.,  68. 
Jones,  Major  Peter,  77-8. 
Jones,  Richard  Wilmer,  68. 
Jones,  Rev.  Richd.,  77. 
Jones,  Sam  B.,  116. 
Jones,  Samuel  Goode,  68. 
Jones,  Maj.  S.  G.,  94. 
Jones,  Col.  Samuel  G.,  84-96. 
Jones,  Rchd.  C,  82. 
Jones,  Thomas  Goode,  67,  96,  114. 
Jones.  Thos.  G.  Jr.,  68. 
Jones,  Dr.  Thos.  W.,  81-82. 
Jones,  Mrs.  Polly,  84. 
Jones,  Virginius,  82. 
Jones,  Walter  Burgwyn,  73. 
Jones,  Wm.  Fitzhugh,  69. 
King,  Mrs.  F.  E.,  25. 
Knox,  Mary  Ann,  90. 
Lanier,  Robt.,  87. 
Lawrence,  Dudley  Bates,  71. 
Lawrence,  Kate  Birch,  71. 
Lawrence,  Katurah  V.,  71. 
LeGrand,  Kate  E.,  69. 
LeGrand,  Milton  P.,  69. 
LeGrand,  Wm.  H.,  69. 
Lillington,  Gov.  Alexander,  33. 
Lillington,  Elizabeth,  33. 
Lillington,  Sarah,  32. 
Lockhart,  Ashe,  63. 
Lockhart,  Caroline,  63. 
Lockhart,  Jas.  Alexander,  63. 
Lockhart,  S.  S.,  63. 
Long,  Bettie  Gray,  65. 
McLendon,  C.  A.,  62. 
McRae,  Rev.  C.  F.,  28. 
Maffitt,  Sarah  Q.,  64. 
Marsden,  Rev.  R.,  11. 
Marshall,  James  C,  64. 
Marshall,  Maria  Nash,  64. 
Marshall,  Thos.  A.,  64. 
Marshall,  Wm.  L.,  64. 
Maury,  Madeleine,  69. 
Maury,  James  Fontaine 

and  family,  69. 

Miller,  Robert,  64. 
Montgomery,  Edwin  J.,  116. 
Moore,  Caroline  Sophia,  56. 
Moore,  Eliza  Inglis,  30. 
Moore,  George,  33. 
Moore,  Georgena  Rebecca,  56. 
Moore,  Gov.  James,  31. 
Moore,  Gen.  Jas.,  32. 
Moore,  Junius  A.,  30,  31. 
Moore,  Maurice,  32. 
Moore,  "Old  King"  Roger,  32. 

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Murray,  ^Nlary, 

Nash,  'Abner,'  28. 

Nash,  Maria,  2T. 

Owen,  Gena  Jones,  72. 

Owen,  Rev.  Horace  T.,  72. 

Owen,  Thos.  J.,  72. 

Parker,  Jno.  D.,  42. 

Parker,  Jno.  J., 

Perry,  Mrs.  Jno.  D.,  42. 

Phillips,  Mary,  46. 

Pocahontas,  89-90. 

Polk,  Bishop  Leonidas,  23. 

PoUok,  Maj.  Gen.  Thos.,  22. 

Porter,  John  Jr.,  32. 

Quince,  Parker,  43. 

Quince,  Sarah,  64. 

Read,  Susan,  46. 

Ridley,  Emma  W.,  55. 

Riggs,  Ann  Fleming,  66. 

Riggs,  Georgena,  56. 

Riggs,  Eliza  Moore,  66. 

Riggs,  Joel,  56. 

Riggs,  Junius  M.,  66-7. 

Rolfe,  John,  89. 

Roper,  Emily  Bartlett,  65. 

Roosevelt,  Pres.  Theodore,  112. 

Rushin,  Bessie  E.,  69. 

Rushln,  James  E.,  69. 


Scott,  Annie  Battle,  57. 
Smith,  Mrs.  E.  I.,  25. 
Spotswood,  Ann,  84. 
Spotswood,  Gov.  Alexr.j  84. 
Spotswood,  John,  83. 
Spotts,  Major  Sam'L,  34. 
Still,  3Irs.  Wm.,  62. 
SteM-art.  Elva,  71. 
STOXELAXD,  83. 
Strudwick,  Samuel,  33. 
Swann,  Eliza,  33. 
Swann,  Sam'L,  33. 
Taylor,  J.  Hunt  and  family,  60. 
Tarleton,  Banastre,  80. 
Tarver,  B.  J.,  66. 
Tarver,  Carrie  B.,  66,  71. 
Thornburv,  26. 
Waddell, 'Gen.  Hugh,  12. 
AVadsworth,  Mrs.  Jessie  D.,  68. 
"SVarren,  Dr.  AVm.,  41. 
Warren-Bey,  Dr.  Ed.,  41. 
West.  John,  83. 
Whittle,  L.  N.,  87. 
Wood,  Gen.  Abraham,  77. 
Wood,  Margaret,  77. 
Yeamans,  Elizabeth,  33. 
Yeamans,  Sir  John,  33. 
Yeamans,  Sheriff  Robert,  33. 


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